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The Baker Street robbery was the burglary of the safe deposit boxes at 185 Lloyds Bank〔(Lloyds Bank Map location )〕 on the corner of Baker Street and Marylebone Road, London, on the night of 11 September 1971. The robbers had rented a leather goods shop named Le Sac, two doors north from the bank, and tunnelled a distance of approximately passing under the intervening Chicken Inn restaurant. To avoid being overheard they only dug during weekends. They used a thermal lance to try to break into the vault but ultimately had to use explosives.〔 ==Robbery== Robert Rowlands was a ham radio operator who lived in a fifth floor flat on Wimpole Street.〔(FOUND: Radio Ham's sensational tape of the bank heist 'that rescued compromising pictures of Princess Margaret' | Mail Online )〕 He overheard conversations between the robbers and their rooftop lookout at 11:15 pm.〔 He contacted local police, who did not take him seriously but suggested that he tape recorded the conversations while the robbery was in progress. There was however insufficient information to identify which bank was being robbed. At 1 am, Rowlands contacted Scotland Yard, who immediately sent officers to his flat in Wimpole Street. At 2 am, a senior police officer alerted radio detector vans to track down the gang's exact location. Police checked the 750 banks within 10 miles of Rowlands' receiver, including the Baker Street bank. At the time, the thieves were still in the vaults, but the police failed to realise the fact because the security door was still locked. The thieves got away with £1.5m cash〔"Four jailed for London's biggest bank theft". The Times (27 January 1973), page 1〕 (2010: £16.5m)〔()〕 and valuables from over 260 safe deposit boxes. The total haul was believed to be near £3m (2010: £33.1m).〔 The robbers left a cheeky message on a wall: 'Let's see how Sherlock Holmes solves this one'. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baker Street robbery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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