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SENT TO THE WASH.

SIX NIGHT ATTACKS ON WOMEN.

"TREASURE TROVE" FOR SACK THROWN OVER GIRL

LAUNDRIES.

POUND NOTES IN TROUSER

POCKETS.

In a large book kept in the office of a laundry at Strand on the Grea are such items na "One pr. cuff links," afd. in copper (boy's trousers)," "one kitten (live),” and "one 10/- note."

It is the saswer to the chargea mada recently that, in these days of highly mechanised laundries, such property as cuff links, studs, and, indeed, anything loft in the pockota of apparel sent to the laua-] dry, go through the same process as the clothing, and emerge at the end unrecognisable.

CYCLIST.

GIRLS AFRAID. TO GO OUT AT NIGHT,

Complaints of night attacks ou

£20,000 JEWEL ROBBERY.

MOTOR BANDIT COUP

IN LONDON.

ATTACK ON MAN CARRYING GEMS.

Motor bandits mudë “a valuable

no fewer than six women have been haul in the West End of Fondon made this week at Shenfield, and when, by a cleverly-arranged plan, Hutton, near Brentwood.

they robbed a jeweller'a manager

In every case the description of of a parcel of jewels, including pearia, diamond rings, diamond

the man is the same.

He rides a bicycle, and is gone.bravelets, and unmounted gams, times accompanied by a dog..

valued as about £90,000

Mr. George Baker, manager of the wholcenie jeweller's arm of Mr.

A.G., Chalke, of Maddox-street, W. has called at a bank in Now Bond street and collected the parool.".

The district, though thickly pop Inted, is not wall lighted, and the main roads are lined with trees.

Miss M. Bryant," of Hulton Mount, says she was walking home from Shenâold Station when a, cyc- He had only about 30 yards to list dismounted and caught her by walk to the shop when he was stap. It is a big laundry, equipped the throat. She was unable to call ped by a man, who suddenly pull with ovary known type of modern out, but another woman cominged: Mr. Baker's bat over his eyes, machine. The manager, Mr. L. Palong alarmed the man, who rode thrust arm round his throat, Simon, has been there for 40 years' off...

Ho nesured a reporter that his co- Mrs. R. Wood, of Wash·lant, perience in the matter of foreign Hutton, трудя cycling home en bodies in the washing basket was Thursday night when a man with shared by every laundry of reputa

a dog obstructed her. The dog

in London." There are some black rushed at the machine and the man sheep among us, I have no doubt," he added, "but it wems hard that Wood to dismount

i seized the handlebar, causing Mrs,

the great majority should be tarred Ho is then said to have attacked wish the same brusti. "

her and she screamed. Aftora Every day, he continued, some. article was returned to a customer struggle she got away, but was bad and a receipt obtained. He pro-

Jy bruised..

duced a pile of such receipts. The articles ranged from a small piece of ribbon to ten South African sovereigns, retrieved from a waist- ocut-pocket.

Talas Teeth,,,

and palled him to the ground. taken, Mr. Baker recovered in During the attack the "parcel was time to see a man jump into a red touring car and drive away.

It is thin custom of the firm to deposit valuable jewellery at the neighbouring bank for the week-end, and call for it on Monday morning The thieves must have learned of this arrangement, and watched Mr. Bake" on his errand, for the robbery was carefully timed.

It was just as Mr. Baker 'was nearing his employer's shop that the red touring car was driven up was but the work of a few seconds, to the pavement edge. The robbery

and the man who alighted and car-

The man made off with the dus while Mrs. Wood continued 'scream ing until people living near cameried it out was back in the ear again before people in the street realised what had occurred.

Ont.

Girl's Adventure:

Lost Without Tracé..

By the time podestrians and motorists had started in pursuit the round a corner and all trace of it fugitive car was disappearing was lost.

Miss-Brandon (19), oi Pond Park, Chesham, Bucks, was où her way home whoa a cyclist threw & sack over her head and shoulders and then, rode away. The man ninde no Mr. A. G. Chalke, proprietor of the firm, stated that the theft must other attempt to moless the girl,

have bean cleverly planned by mei attack her in any way.

who had kept watch on the proce While a young woman was cross-dure carried out when the unlanbles ing Earlswood Common, Redhill, were collected."

or

Every, garment which could pos. sibly secrete the smallest artisie, it was explained, is examined meta- culously: Not merely is such a r putation a valuable recommanda tion to a faundry in these days of competition, but hard or coloured

unclothed man sprang, from The attack was carried out only articles are liable to spoil not" only behind a bush and tried to seela yard or two from my promises," the garment in which they are her. She ovaded him and ran away Mr. Chalke continued. Mr. Baker and the man soon abandoned the was apparently struck by the man secreted, but the property of other pursuit. He was about 25 years old who attacked him, and before he

and 5ft 9in. in height.

J

J

Girl Bites Assailant,

It is not at all uncommon for pound notes to be found in cloth- ing-curiously enough generally in the top of a pocket in a pair of Another young woman was at trousers sent for dry cleaning. Me tacked by a handbag snatcher when Simon's moral for those who carry wood. She bit his arm and he re walking through a cutting at Earls notes in their trouser pockets a:lensed his hold and dashed away."

Be careful how you empty pock. eta.**

Once a kitten climbed into the laundry basket. The receipt for ita fe return is prescrvod On & other occasion a cat arrived at the laundry in the same manner, No receipt marks this event, for it end- ed in tragedy. Pues died on the

way.

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could scramble to his feet or call for help the jewels were snatched from his hand.

Mr. Baker caught a glimpse of a man wearing a dark overcoat juniping into a rod touring car.. the engine of which was running." A man witly a leather coat and what looked like a peak cap was driving. Since the Black-heath murder, Mr. Baken ahouted, and in com when the police strengthened the pany with some passers-by attempl watch on London commons and to give chase. The car, how- parks, attacks on women in the over, disappeared." Metropolian district have been re ,duced to a minimum.

There is no evidence of an in- crease in this type of crime in the London, aten," said a Scotland Yard official

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Cyclist Gagged and Bound..

Charlbury few women would go out In the litle Oxfordshire town of

unaccompanied at night,

MOVING. PRINCESS ROYAL'S SAFE.

CRANE'S LOAD OF JEWELS.

cù

LOWERED FROM A

WINDOW.

False teeth cocur occasionally in this long record of absent-minded

38, while links and studs freely! They were terror-stricken as the sprinkle every page. Some pairs of man who, after being robbed, was result of the attack on a young liuka aro by now old friends to the left on the road bruised, gagged. laundry. They turn up with mono- and bound.

An astonished knct, of people The man was Ernest Shayler, of gathered at the corner of Curzon tonous regularly nearly every Lenfield, who had gone to Chartstreet and Chesterfield-gardens, W., bury to take his fiancée to a dance, and gazed upwards at a huga stool As a rule in the case of articles He was wheeling his cycle in a safe which was being lowared by a of any value some slight reward is, dark and lonely part of the town sent by the owner to the sorter who when he was folled by a blow on had it. Sometimes this gratitude is the hend. He neither heard nor abant. Then the firm provide it. saw his assailants.

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With meticulous care the half- dozen workmen engaged on the job A motorist found him in a semi- move the safe bit by bit through conscious condition, lying face the window on to a steel platform down in the gutter at the roadside and fastened it to the crane. A handkerchief round his mouth Slowly it ran along the platform: was tied at the back of his head. on greased rollers and then swung his logs were bound and both "clear into mid-air-five-and-a-j hands tied behind his back and quarter dons of case-hardened steel, fastened with cords to his ankles. burglar-proof, fireproof and hig His wallet was picked up on the enough to hold half-a-dozen man. other side of the road, a 108, note What is it i asked, the spectators and some letters were missing. His and Where does it come from? scarf and dancing pumps were also It was revealed that the crans stolen.

was installed in the garden at Chesterfield House, the former house of the Princesa Royal and Lord Harewood, for the removal of heavy articles of furniture ald marble statues.

RECTOR'S DAUGHTER. BOUND OVER.

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Storn measures to deal with women shoplifters were advocated at "the Guildhall Police Court by Aldorman Joobs, the presiding magistrats," who said's

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tery was bound over at Wornester, bination of the lock, for abs herself Sho ploaded that she decided to opens and shuts it every time the repack a carries, emptied her jewels, and plate, worth thousanda parcels on the counter, and then of pounds, are placed in it realizing that she had been a long When Princess Mary moved into time and that a man friend was Chesterfold House she decided that waiting outside, the " jumbled” the the only secure place for the safe rest of the articles in and must; was in her bedroom, so it was fitted have taken the other goods nooi inte corner of the room and dentally,

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