Art robbery at Dulwich Picture Gallery, South London
Dec. 12, 1966 -1, 500, 000 Art Robbery on Dulwich Gallery. The World's Biggest ever Picture Haul: The world's biggest art robbery was made by a gang who snatched paintings worth more than 1, 500, 000 from Dulwich College Picture Gallery - Rembrandt's Girl at the Window, Portrait of Titus and Portrait of a Young Man. Three of the other paintings were by Rubens. The raiders broke in during the early hours this morning by removing a panel of a burglar alarm system. Scotland Yard launched a countrywide hunt for the art gang.
Photo shows Dept Supt. Charles Herwitt gives an on-the-spot press conference about the robbery to journalists
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