CHURCH THIEVES
LOOT. VALUED AT OVER HALF A MILLION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). SAN FRANC ISCO, Dec. 7. The police to-day recovered stolen church goods, valued at more than hall a million dollars, and arrested a man, giving the name of Joseph Baueij of Los Angeles, as head of an international ring of church thieves. The loot included gold chalices, altar cloths, vestments, carpets, gold candelahra and jewels. The police said that Hauer 'confessed he was implicated in others in Los Angeles, the Eastern States and Europe. More than a hundred Catholic churches in the Untied Slates and Mexico have been robhed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1928, Page 6
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