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A CLEVER RUSE. London, June 3. Fi*&M/ia*?f l fifid bo.; jfewM 'rnerdhants, deposited a 'heavily-irwit box valued at £4OOO in a cloakroom at King’s Cross station, intending to place' it on a train in the morning. . During the evening, it v ls supposed j a district messenger asked that the box be removed to another cloakroom, and secured a second-ticket for it. At live o’clock in the morning a cab drove up, and a man presented a second ticket, and the porters lifted the box into the cab. When Freeman’s presented their ticket, the theft was discovered. Five hundred poufids reward has been offered.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 25, 4 June 1913, Page 6
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106LATEST CABLES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 25, 4 June 1913, Page 6
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