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Friday
thieves
dia-
and

POLICE
releasing
about the
robbery from 2
Valiey home
when armed
made off with
monds, gold
assorted jewelry.

By JOANNE MacDONALD |

Csi, Rick Wait ot the
North Vanceuver ROMP
said five adults — four fami-
ly members and one guest —
‘were all physicaHy abused
in some way"? by the thieves
as they roamed = various
rooms of the home, *upset-
ting evervthing.”” in) search
of the jewels.

Police are not identifying
the victims at the request of
the family involyed, saving
that the family is still **badiv
shaken up’* by the incident.

The family is mvolved in
the retail wholesale and
manufacturing end of the
Jewelry business and owns
three separate jewellry stores
on the Lewer Mainland. Ac-
cording to police, family
mentbers were the victinns of
a break, enter and theft in
1978,

While all inselsed were
attacked, only the lather of
the family sustained injuries
requiring medical attention,
receiving stitches fora cut to
the face oat Lions Cite
Hospital The man was
released from hospital lates

See page 9

THE VICTIM of a band of violent, armed robbers is wheeled From his
Morgan Avenue home by ambulance attendants as police begin their

For details.

at Le.

investigation of a St-million robbery Friday. See accompanying article

PLANE CRASHED IN SURREY

A FERRY  auplane crash
claimed the life of a North
Vaneauser resident Saturdeas
APCECNOOT FE SUTrey.

Richard John Hewson, 60,
OF 2728 Hoskins Road. was
the passeager of a plane
piloted by farm Trarup, 43.
of F428] Ciladstone Drive.
Surtes. Phe tse mien
MHytng in a sinh. five dewing
dineradt that crashed and

re

burned on b6sth Street, just
north of the Fraser Highway
at 12:30 p.m.

Cur. Doug Wright of the
Surrey ROMP said: the cause
of the crash has aot ser been
determi.

Witnesses cu the scene
reported the pkine hed ap-
parently heen attempting
sone aerobatie muanousers
when othe wines suddends
snapped up and Che aiperatt
plumuneted to the ground,

Ssh Dvus. supervisor ot

Investigations for the Cana-
dian Aviation Safety Board,
told the North Shore News
the aircraft. —- which had
been home-made -- had a
tubular steel fuselage, with
aluminum wings. He said: it
bad not vel been ascertained
if the plane was covered with
fabric or fibrephass.

According to news reports
Hewson bad been building a
similar plane in the backs ard
of bis North Vancouver
home.

Asked Wo the aircraft was
aiworthy, Dzus said he
could not answer the ques-
tion. He added, ‘To the best
of my koowledge, the plane
bas flown before.”

As of Tuesday. Dvus said
investigators were still inter-
Viewing Witnesses, and were
not expected to begin ex-
amining the plane's
wreckage until today. He
said the pline had taken oft
from Pitt Meadows, where it
was based.