A Wholesale Swindle.
A startling discovery, which has occasioned a considerable sensation m the canton Tessin and the neighbourhood of the Italian lakes, has been made at Como. It appears that the entire staff of the Lariana Company, which owns the fine steamers that ran on Lake Como, hare for years past been systematically robbing their employers. Every employe* of the company, from the captain to the cabin-boys, is implicated. They had formed themselves into a fraternity — a veritable Cammora ; tickets were forged, books falsified, and the members of the association met every month to verify the accounts and divide the spoil. The company remained m ignorance of these depredations until they were informed by a dismissed steward, whose silence his confederates had refused to purchase by continuing to allow him a share of the plunder. Nearly all the employes are now in/mstody.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 69, 14 February 1883, Page 2
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143A Wholesale Swindle. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 69, 14 February 1883, Page 2
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