PICKING THE MAILS.
INDIAN DURBAR PRESENTS STOLEN. By Telceraph—Press Association—Copyriehl Paris, November 19. Out of one hundred and fifteen mail hags for India and (lie Ear East, eighteen were opened near Macon, France, and largo numbers of Christmas and other presents in connection with the Coronation Durbar stolen. The thieves hid on tho roof of tho mail van before tho train started, and descended to a small platform behind the van. During tho long run they wrenched tho iron bars from tho window and rilled fifty mail sacks, taking contents'roughly estimated at .£120,000. They escaped when tho train was slowing down at a point where tho lino was being repaired. Thero aro indications. that tho thieves throw the stolen packets to. an automobilist, confederates collecting them and placing them in tho car.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1291, 21 November 1911, Page 5
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132PICKING THE MAILS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1291, 21 November 1911, Page 5
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