8,000 SEARCH FOR A THIEF.
J.ODNON, Dec. 8. Taxicab drivers in London—there are about 8,000 of them—are determined to (help the police to track down the thief who, with the aid of a taxicab, lias brought off several daring robberies in London during the last few days. This man plies for hire in the ordinary way. generally near a railway station. and, when he gets a fare with luggage, lie drives to the ordered destination, and then, on the pretext of turning his cab to get the boxes off more easily, turns his cab round and disappears. So keen on the search are the taxicab drivers that any man plying for hire in a district in which he is not known finds that he lias to satisfy liis comrades as to his bona fides.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1926, Page 4
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1348,000 SEARCH FOR A THIEF. Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1926, Page 4
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