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A suit before Justice Rowlatt in the London courts brought by Bourne, Ltd., the City jewelers, against Robert Evett, theatrical producer, for $815, the value of stage jewelry worn by Miss José Collins in “Frasquita,” was settled by agreement this week. The jewelry, it was said, was extra large, and flashy. During the play’s progress one necklace had to be thrown violently on the stage by Miss Collins, and she wanted a duplicate set. Before the evidence got very far the defense intimated it would agree to a judgment for a sum of money to cover the claim, with costs.
Heavy Failure in the Jewellery Trade. — The failure was announced at the London Bankruptcy Court, on the 25th ult., of William Henry Peake, manufacturing jeweller and diamond merchant, of Gerard Street, Soho, trading as " Grant & Peake." The liabilities are stated at £83,000, against assets £33,000. The Official Receiver appointed Monday, the last day of the month, at eleven o'clock, to hear an application for special manager.
Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 1st March 1887
Kirner, Raphael, trading as Winterhalder & Co., 99, Bishopsgate Street Without, watchmaker and jeweller. First meeting : Bankruptcy Buildings, Portugal Street, October 9th at 12. Examination: 34, Lincoln's Inn Fields, October 23rd at 12½.
Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 1st November 1890
Last week a London jeweler was openly attacked in his store, by a man with a “knuckleduster.” The jeweler, Thomas Creed of Old Town, Clapham, S. W., saw the intruder trying to lift a tray of jewelry from the inside trim. He rushed into the store from his back premises and the thief attacked him with the “knuckleduster,” knocking him to the floor in a semi-conscious condition. A daughter, hearing the noise, hurried into the shop but was too late to intercept the intruder who escaped with a tray of rings. The jeweler, an elderly man, was badly injured about the head. The police are searching for the thief whose description they have.
The second smash-and-grab raid on the jewelry store of Robinson, Ltd., Cranbourne St. jewelers, within nine months, failed the other evening owing to the prompt action of the manager. The street was thronged with pedestrians at, the time and considerable jewelry was spilled on the sidewalk. None of it was stolen since the manager dashed onto the sidewalk and prevented any attempt to collect the items of value from the trim. A man was arrested by the police. On the occasion of the last raid £2,500 worth of jewelry was stolen.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th September 1927
B. W. Fase & Co., Oxford St., the other afternoon, failed after the window had been smashed by a wrapped brick. A $20,000 tray of rings was just below the hole made by the brick, but a passerby grappled with the would-be thief—a young man—and prevented him from grabbing the tray. When the manager reached the sidewalk he found the pedestrian holding down the crook, who was turned over to the police.
Early the other morning a patrolman noticed that the door of the premises of Kirwan & Co., manufacturing jewelers of Hatton Garden, had been tampered with. He was thus able to enter and heard distant thumping. Instead of blowing his whistle he tiptoed out and brought along several more constables. Creeping up the stairs the posse of police suprised three cracksmen at work on the jewelers’ safe which contained jewelry worth many hundred thousand dollars. The trio was rushed and overpowered and conveyed to jail.
While workmen were engaged in the basement a raid was made on the jewelry store of H. T. Poland, Great Portland St., last week, a side window being smashed and a tray of watches being grabbed. The thieves made their getaway, but the watches were a cheap line valued at $5 each. Right alongside was some rather valuable jewelry but the thieves were in too great a hurry to include it in their coup.
A man was before the Marlborough St. magistrate last week charged with breaking into the Old Bond St. jewelry shop of Holmes & Co. and stealing two diamond rings valued at $6,300. Although the accused denied any knowledge of the affair four people identified him as the one who smashed the window. He was remanded in custody.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th April 1927
The loss of valuable gems as a result of the increasing smash-and-grab raids in and around the metropolis has led one jewelry firm—Messrs. Holmes of Bond St.—to install one of the new automatic shutter devices which close down over a window, immediately a hole is smashed in it. The heavy metal shutter falls within a tenth of a second of contact being made and with sufficient force to seriously injure the hand or arm of a jewel bandit intent on grabbing articles. The question of injury, however, hardly enters into the matter since a would-be thief must act with extreme rapidity to grab jewelry through the hole he has made before the shutter falls. On two occasions jewel bandits have smashed the windows of the Bond St. shop and escaped with valuable pieces of jewelry. The shutter-guillotine has now solved an important problem of the jewelry house.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 23rd January 1930
A lightning raid was carried out the other evening on the jewelry store of R. H. Halford & Sons, Pall Mall, automobile bandits smashing a window and getting clear with $5,000 worth of jewelry within five seconds. A director of the jewelry firm was in the rear premises about 6 o’clock and heard a crash of glass. He dashed to the sidewalk, but could see no signs of the thieves. An assistant in the shop was a second or two quicker and chased a car containing two men until it was lost to view in the traffic. The stolen jewelry included a $2,500 opal necklet.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 15th December 1926
A jewel robbery that occupied only a few seconds and took place before the eyes of a score or more shoppers was staged the other evening when a well-dressed man threw a “parcel” through a window in the establishment of Robinson Bros., Leicester Square jewelers, and dashed away with two trays of high-priced rings. The thief fled down an alley and jumped into a waiting four-seater touring car which immediately drove off at break-neck speed towards Trafalgar Square, followed by police officers in commandeered taxi-cabs. During the chase a woman was knocked down and traffic was thrown into confusion for half an hour. The police officers who had been summoned to the jewelry premises by a police whistle blown by the jewelry manager lost the car containing the thief near Trafalgar Square. The jewelry store was well filled with customers at the time of the theft. An assistant heard a crash of glass and dashed out to the sidewalk in time to see the thief running down Cranbourne Alley with the trays of rings under his arm. Whistles began to blow on all sides, and shoppers, including women, took up the chase. The manager at the jewelry shop immediately put up the shutters at all his windows while assistants swept up the broken glass from the pavement. The “parcel” contained a brick. A tray of expensive diamond rings, which, it is thought, was the real object of the thief, was knocked back into the shop by the wrapped brick.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 24th November 1926
146, Regent-street, July 29, 1854.
This is to certify that the Partnership hitherto existing between William Broad Rowlands and Arthur Rowlands, Jewellers, is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
William Broad Rowlands.
Arthur Rowlands.
Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Samuel Sabine Edkins and John Parry Edkins, carrying on business at No. 16, Salisbury-square, Fleet-street, in the city of London, as Silversmiths, Platers, Jewellers, Hardwaremen, and Globe Makers, under the style or firm of Edkins and Son, was this day dissolved by mutual consent, as and from the 1st day of April instant; and notice is hereby further given, that the said business of Silversmith and Globe Maker will in future be carried on by the said John Parry Edkins alone, on his own credit and account.—As witness our hands this 6th day of April 1852.
Samuel Sabine Edkins.
Jno. Parry Edkins.
Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, John Gotlien Vander and John Hedges, in the business
of Silversmiths and Jewellers, carried on by us at 26, New Bond-street, London, under the style or firm of Vander and Hedges or/ and Tessier, has been dissolved by mutual consent as from this 28th day of May, 1900, and the said business will be henceforth earned on under the same style and name by me John Gotlien Vander alone, who will pay and discharge all debts and liabilities of the said late firm and receive all moneys owing to the said late firm.—Dated this twenty-eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred.
JOHN GOTLIEN VANDER.
JOHN HEDGES.
