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Tuesday 9 December 2008

The Porte and Markle diamond robbery



For an updated and expanded version of this post, see: http://westenddumplings.blogspot.com/2023/04/diamond-robbery-at-winnipegs-porte-and.html

11 comments:

WE TWO ARSEHOLES said...

Cool story - believe criminal court registry records go back that far - check out Law Courts on Hargrave you may find something there.

Christian Cassidy said...

Thanks - I think I will follow this up and see how it all came out. A nice winter project !

Prairie Topiary said...

Fascinating story - thanks for posting this.

1eyedpecker said...

Hey Speaking of robberies - have you ever looked into this one?

"It was also in 1925 that Winnipeg had its greatest unsolved robbery. The Street Railway payroll, some $87,500.00 in cash, was snatched in an unparalleled daylight hold-up. The perpetrators of the robbery have never been caught."

from: http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/transactions/3/transportation.shtml

Just curious?

Christian Cassidy said...

I had read about it in passing but never followed it up. I will do so !!

I usually get the ideas for these types of posts for research I do for my daily history blog http://thiswaswinnipeg.blogspot.com/
if there's an interesting date or information with a lot of follow up stuff I will expand upon it an put it here. The one category I haven't really combed through yet for that post has been crime stories.

Thanks for the date and the link !

Christian Cassidy said...

Please note that this post was extensively updated in April 2023.
Christian

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