Gertrude Smith

Gertrude Smith died after she was run over by robbers fleeing from a robbery at a jewellers shop in New Street, Birmingham, on 20 November 1924.

The robbers had driven up in a car and stopped outside the jewellers shop of Messrs. Brights, Limited in Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, just before 5pm. They got out and roughly pushed a woman who was looking in the window to one side and smashed the window with a mallet. They then snatched a diamond star broach worth £800 and some other diamond rings from a tray totalling over £1,000 worth of jewellery and then dashed back to their car.