PICTURE RECOVERED
UNDER UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 9. a.m.) PARIS, March 8,
'l'he police have recovered in an amazing fashion, Murrillo’s “Two Tintorettos,” which the owner, a picture dealer, insured for 2$- million francs for transit to America. The picture disappeared from a warehouse at Havre. The police, suspecting an employee named Dainman, tracked him ceaselessly for a month, and eventually heard lie was motoring to Havre to fetch the picture. A police motor following, punctured near Harfleur, and the detectives resigned themselves to losing the trail, when twenty minutes later, an unlighted lorry coming at full speed towards Paris, was stopped. 'Hie occupants flung out a packing ease into a roadside ditch and went on. The police salved the case which contained the picture. It is surmised that the men on the lorry mistook the police car for accomplices, to whom they had arranged to hand over the. booty. Dainman and the lorry driver have been arrested.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1929, Page 5
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165PICTURE RECOVERED Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1929, Page 5
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