"LOST" LUGGAGE FRAUDS.
DISHONEST RAILWAY EM-
PLOYEES.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright' Times— Sydney Sun Special Cables
(Received 8.0 a.m.) Rome, February 1
Cresus Voasquet, a music hall manager, obtained special trunks filled with sand, and pasted labels on them for different destinations.
A confederate made a declaration that the baggage contained valuable theatrical property. Several railway employees were parties to the conspiracy, and removed ' the trunks at junctions during the journey, affixing false duplicate numbers corresponding on the receipt. The police discovered the trickery.
The railways paid indemnities on lost luggage amounting to £BO,OOO a vear.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 27, 2 February 1914, Page 5
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95"LOST" LUGGAGE FRAUDS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 27, 2 February 1914, Page 5
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