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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
187
It
is
believed
that
two
or
more
individuals
were
engaged
in
the
robbery,
the
supposition
being
that
one
person
got
down
into
the
basement
without
attracting
attention,
and
turned
off
the
gas,
while
another,
so
soon
as
darkness
supervened,
got
by
some
means
within
the
counter,
and,
unobserved,
took
the
bag
from
the
peg--all
concerned
making
good
their
escape
in
the
midst
of
the
stir
and
noise
by
which
they
were
surrounded.
The
whole
adventure
bears
the
impress
of
having
been
carefully
planned
and
cleverly
executed,
and
there
is
little
doubt
that
the
robbery
was
carried
out
by
men
who
were
experts
in
their
nefarious
calling.
The
value
of
the
articles
contained
in
the
forty
registered
letters
was
about
L15,000;
and
as
the
scene
of
the
robbery
lay
in
the
midst
of
diamond
merchants
and
jewellers,
it
is
not
surprising
that
precious
stones
and
jewellery
were
the
principal
contents
of
these
letters.
Besides
watches,
bracelets
set
with
pearls
and
diamonds,
ear-rings,
rings,
&c.,
the
following
articles
were
among
the
property
stolen--viz.,
eight
parcels
of
rough
diamonds,
147
turquoises,
a
quantity
of
small
emeralds,
6000
drilled
sapphires,
2000
pairs
of
garnet
bores,
240
pairs
of
sapphire
bores,
a
quantity
of
sapphires
weighing
695
carats,
several
rubies
and
sapphires
weighing
546
carats,
&c.,
&c.
A
reward
of
L200
was
offered
by
the
Postmaster-General,
and
a
further
reward
of
L1000
by
certain
insurance
companies
who
had
insured
the
valuable
letters,
for
the
conviction
of
the
delinquents
and
the
recovery
of
the
stolen
property;
but
the
robbery
remains
to
this
day
one
of
those
which
have
baffled
the
skill
of
the
Metropolitan
police
and
the
officers
of
the
Post-office
to
unravel
or
to
bring
home
to
the
evil-doers.
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