USED SILKEN ROPE

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 189, 19 August 1935, Page 3

USED SILKEN ROPE

LONDON JEWEL THIEVES ESCAPE FROM BUILDING Diamond watches and jewellery worth nearly £333 were stolen from the /premises of Russells, jewellers, of Aidgate, London, in an early morning raid recently, says the “News Chronicle. ’ ’ , The thieves escaped by climbing down a 40ft length of silken rope on the Metropolitan Railway line. The silk was taken from a gown manufacturers’ store above the shop.

To get into the jeweller’s premises the thieves smashed three locked doors, sawed through iron bars and a four-lever lock, tried to break through a ceiling and lay on a perilous ledge while they cut their way through a skylight. Reaching the shop at last they took rings and other jewellery from dozens of pads in the windows and in counter cases.

One of the men apparently injured himself in forcing an entry, as there was blood on one of the pads. In escaping the thieves climbed back on to the ledge above the railway line, obtained rolls of silken material from "the gown makers, and then by the aid of the knotted silk descended 40ft. on to the railway track.