LONDON JEWEL THIEVES

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 75, 1 May 1930, Page 11

LONDON JEWEL THIEVES

. SMART CAPTURE BY BOY. A 16-year-oId boy. Leslie Blackie, of fiambeth, was responsi'ble lately for the capture of a man suspected of stealrng a rope of pearis, valued at £1500, i irom a jeweller's window in Duke street, Piccadilly. It was just getting dusk when the assistants heard a crash, and saw a large hole in the window through which a man's hand seized the necklace. A brick, wrapped in paper, had heen used I I S The crash was heard by a number of people in the sfieet, and they ran after the thief, I ^ 1 °PPec^ fhe necklace in the gutter Blackie, who is, employed at a boot shop, opposxte the jeweller's, led the chase and caught up with a man. He threw hnn to the ground and held on! j until help arnved, and the man was ar-l rested. He was taken to the police ■ station. Tlie necklace broke when tlie I man dropped it in the gutter, and P®fVS Were scathered over the road • I All but four were recovered. A second jewel raid occurred the same day at premises at Wimbledon. Ihree men. drove up to a shop in a motor-car. One man threw a brick I through the window and snatched at a tray of diamond rings, but failed to | o'otain_ them, as the tray was chained f to a shelf. The handit then ran back to the motor car and was driven awa.v, ■