CHURCH ROBBED
STOLEN TREASURE RECOVERED
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
BRUSSELS, December 6.
The Treves police had been baffled by the theft of several million marks’ worth of art treasures from the Sakingen Cathedral until they saw a woman with a dress made from altar vestments.
A constable, attired in a woman’s dress, deceived a male suspect, and gained enrance to a flat in Brussels, where there were found the whole of the stolen treasure. In addition there was found a plant for coining five mark pieces, for which the Church silver was utilised.
The police have now captured a whole gang who are suspected’ of a series of robberies from the German museums.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1932, Page 5
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