JEWELLERY THEFT.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXII, Issue 96, 31 July 1935, Page 2

JEWELLERY THEFT.

PRICELESS RUBY NECKLACE STOLEN. NEW YORK, July 29. Two bandits posing as customers stole jewellery variously estimated to be worth between 100,000 and 250,000 dollars from an exclusive Fifth Avenue jewellery shop to-day. The bandits entered the shop a few minutes before closing time. After inspecting a few articles they whipped out revolvers, covering the manager and the only clerk present. Among the jewellery stolen was a ruby necklace once the property of Mary Antoinette. No exact price has ever been set on the necklace. It contained 25 flat rubies of from one to two carats each and had a diamond and ruby clasp of filigree work studded with diamonds. A card from the French Government certified to the genuineness of the necklace. The police declared that the robbery was one of the boldest on record. They believe it to be the work of amateurs. The thieves displayed nervousness, as they tied up Joseph Friedman, the twenty-two-years-old nephew of the owner of the shop.