BRITISH ADMIRAL ROBBED

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3482, 21 June 1934, Page 6

BRITISH ADMIRAL ROBBED

Valuable jewels missed. A daring gang of dinner-time jewel thieves, who have made hauls of nearly £200,000 from large country houses during the past 12 months, lately added another robbery to a list engaging the attention of Scotland Yard. The" scerie of the gang's latest operation is Eiierslie House, the home of Admiral Sir Regiriald Tyrwhitt, at Hawkhurst, Kent. The raid was made while the family were at dinner. The thieves carried away frorn Lady tyrwhitt's bedroom an ornate Chinese cabinet, containing a ruby crescent valued at £25, but overlooked much more valuable jewellery a few inches away. The admiral's insignia, including his G.C.B. and D.S.O. decorations, were in a box cios'e by, which was also untouched. Admiral Tyrwhitt, who is principal Naval Aide-de-camp to the King, took part in the Heligoland and Dogger Bank actions in the Great War. "The thieves securely lashed together two ladders which I had been using to repair the roof of my squash court," he said, in an interview. "There cah be no doubt that the intruders entered while we were at dinner. It is equally certain that we were listening to the wireless at the tiriie. I remember it was tuned iri to a loud programme, which riiust have drowned the noise they made." Less than a fortnight previously a gang broke into the residence of Sir Benjamin Cohen, K.C., at Limpsfield, Surrey, arid the police issued a warning to the public to lock up all ladders at night and to secure all \Hndows m the early evening. Two days befdre this robbery Miss Vesta Victoria's house at Roydori, Essex, ftas roßbed of valuable jewellery.