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JEWEL LOSSES.
TOTAL SUM OF £20,000 INVOLVED.
Garden,
RAID IN LONDON..
THE CHINA MAIL,
The circumstances of the rob- [bery suggest:
"I believe the robbers worked
Each of the rings was stamped robbery, as it must have taken with the manufacturer's mark, the more than one or two men to carry letters "R," "S," or "T" followed in the oxy-acetylene cylinders. No by a number; and the watches were one apparently saw the cylindera stamped "T. and A. H., all plat. boing brought in by the front door, G." (or J.), with a number. The Most probably this was done on! gold cigarette cases also bore the Saturday afternoon after the office Precious stones and jewelled ar-firm's Initials.
had closed at one p.m. The lock ticles of the estimated value of be-
How the thieves obtained un en- on the front door had not been tween £6,000 and £8,000 were trance to the building is not forced, so I can only Imagine it stolen recently from a massive known, but it is obvious that they was picked. safe on the premises of Messrs. T. must have brought their heavy ap- and A. Hirschfield, manufacturing paratus in a car, and used it for daring Saturday afternoon and jewellers, Kirby-street, Hatton getting away speedily with their Sunday in the daylight, as the
spoils.
fare from their lamps would have Hole Burned in Safe.
attracted attention at night. They The manner in which the thieves took every precaution in the event The probability of several men managed to burn through the safe of discovery, and had arranged two having been concerned;
so close to the window without the means of escape-one by cutting|
sean from the out with a diamond a window of a The use of a lath shutter to fierce. Hght being prevent the light of an
street or the houses opposite, is lavatory on the first floor and also acetylene lamp which the thieves also a baffling problem. The win-removing the bars outside it, and used being seen through the dow is provided with a dark blind, the other by forcing a window giv- windows; and
which is never pulled down, but ing on to the fire escape on the
it had been drawn, the third floor.. Unusual precautions to ensure even if shfo exit if disturbed.
light of the acetylene lamp would "Although I have not been able have been plainly visible behind it. to ascertain how much has been The firm occupies the upper It is suggested that the thieves taken out of the safe, I assume floors of the building, which was had provided themselves with a that everything has gone, which left securely fastened as usual. portable rolled-up light shutter, would mean a loss of at least!
formed of thin laths fastened to £7,000," canvas, or some similar material. ". A reward of £800 has been offer- The polico authorities have made led by Messrs. Tyler & Co., valu- thorough examination of the pre-ers and assessors, of 45, Holborn mises, but are so far, it is under- viaduct, on behalf of Lloyd's Un- stood, without any clue to the perderwriters, for information leading petrators of the robbery.
to the arrest of the thieves and the recovery of the property.
oxy-
Nothing occurred to arouse Įsuspicion, but when Messrs. Hirschfeld's foreman went to the offices on the first floor in
the morning at eight o'clock hea found that the door, which opens on the landing, had been forced by a femmy, and the whole place was in disorder. Books and papers were strewn, all over the floor, and
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Daylight Operations.
Mr. Alexander Hirschfeld, the A reward of £1,000 is offered by proprietor, sald in an interview: Messrs. Tyler and Co., assessor, the tall safe, standing on the left} The lock of the safe, which is for information leading to the re- of the window overlooking Kirby is ft. high and has a 1-in. steel door. covery of a box containing pearls, atreet, had been forced open by had been completely burned out by valued at £10,000, which has been burning a large hole with an oxy-
oxy-acetylene burners. I believe lost in South America or in the acetylene lamp close to the lock.
several men. were engaged in the post from there to Puris between The two cylinders which had con-,
Dec. 3. and Jan. 30. tained the gas, and their wooden) cases, were found lying on the floor.
Hundreds of Rings.
WHEN YOUR WTTLE ONE HAS COLIC.
The points in South America be- tween which the loss may have.oc curred are Rio Hacha and Barran- A large quantity of jewellery, of
Colic is a common complaint with quilla, Columbia. The box, wrap- various descriptions had been left little children, due to gas in the pet in blue linen, measured 8 in.) by the firm in the safe stomach
The child, by 5% in, and 3%1⁄2 in., and con- and bowels. and the whole of the contents cries out suddenly, refuses to be tained the following:
One lot Descartes pearls, weigh- were stolen, the empty cases being quieted, and draws the legs up! soattered about the room. In order close to the body. Sometimes colicing 4,040 carata; one lot Descartes Sole Agents: W. R. LOXLEY & CO., Hong Kong. to open the safe the thieves had is accompanied by nausea, vomit-pearis, weighing 70 carats; and one lot Devista pearls, numbering to penetrate a steel plate about an ing and fever.. inch in thickness,
Baby's Own Tablets. specially 22,598, and representing
a total Until the stock books have been devised for the treatment of weight of 25,974 grains. gone through it is impossible to children's stomach and
This is the second big pearl loss recorded by the assessors, who on give a list of the missing jewellery, but the haul includes:
March 7 offered a reward of £6,000 -subsequently increased to £10,-
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ful sleep to the little sufferer. £50,000, which disappeared in A number of flexible bracelets They contain not a single atom of transit between Paris and London. set with diamonds and with dia- narcotic or other injurious in-It had been despatched on Feb. 23 monds and sapphires.
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