Big Reward Offered For Money Stolen On Train
LONDON, Feb. 10. A firm of assessors offers a reward of £1000 for the recovery of £15,750 in banknotes, stolen in a mailbag on a train between Reading and Shrewsbury, says the Daily TelegrajA. j Scotland Yard is puzzled as to how the thieves identified the mail- ' bag. The money was posted at a London post o'ffice on Thursday morning-. The banknotes were then placed in a mailbag which bore a destination label with nothing to denote its special contents. It was placed on a London-Birken-head train with hundreds of similar mailbags. It is believed that the thieves for weeks made extensive rail trips, noting dfetails of the security measures.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5325, 11 February 1947, Page 5
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118Big Reward Offered For Money Stolen On Train Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5325, 11 February 1947, Page 5
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