THEFT OF BULLION.
LEAD SUBSTITUTED. (bt cable— pkbss association—copybiqht) (reutbr's telegrams.) CAPE TOWN, November 23. On October 27th, 24 boxes of Rhodesian raw gold, valued at £40,000, were despatched by train from Salisbury to where, on October 31st, they wer6 shipped by the steamer Armadale for London. On arrival th<ire it was discovered in three of the hoses the gold had been replaced' with' lead. There were no signs of the boxes being tampered with, the seals apparently being intact. The value of the stolen gold was £IO,OOO. It is believed the theft was committed; before the gold left riouth Africa. The bullion travels by an ordinary train without a guard, iho boxes are sealed with ordinary wax seals, and 1 weighed at time of acceptance for the rail, and again at • the end of the train journey; The weights were found to b© identical, and this is taken as possibly indicating that the boxes were "tampered with before being consigned to the railway.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18239, 25 November 1924, Page 9
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164THEFT OF BULLION. Press, Volume LX, Issue 18239, 25 November 1924, Page 9
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