AN AUSTRALIAN GANG.

Shannon News, 27 March 1923, Page 4

AN AUSTRALIAN GANG.

HAS PROFITABLE TiMK IN BIG HOTELS. ROUSD-ur in i*akis. (Received Monday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, March 2b. The •' Dailv Chronicle's " Pans cor,.,spondent, detailing the capture of tlie Austraiian international thi<n es, lavs some weeks ago an American in London was relieved pt a o-ontainins;- a considerable .sum 01 moiie" He suspected a ™ootu-ton e-ucd poker player, who had bho\s n Spin* skill singing church hymns and had a mis-shapen left ear otthe cauh fiower type. The Pans V?^ c f asked to search for a man with a oauu. tlowor ear. This week a French deleelive ' saw a small man with a mis. shapen ear and an unsteady gait coming'from a big hotel The detective hJped the man into a taxi and follow, •d Fit u discreet, distance. He shadowPd the* man for three days, learning his associates, until an arrest was possib"■• Eight men and three women were gathered/in, including /' Cauliflower." ' The latter was astonished at the detectives' success and actually congratulated them on their skill, the prisoners were taken to the Sante J. ri. s cn. , , The magistrate said he suspected that the prisoners were implicated m a long series of falsified cheque operations*, 'pearl thefts and hotel robberies especially on the Riviera. The prisoners will be charged witlf thefts aggregating several million francs. Five members of the gang still at large are believed to b e operating in London and Spain. Recently successful effort was made to slash the inner pocket of Mr. Elliam Rich, a London merchant, with a razor in a Paris hotel. Ten thousand francs were thus stolen.