ROBBERS' TRAIN COUP
MAIL-BAG STOLEN £B,OOO IN TREASURY NOTES SENSATION IN ENGLAND By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright LONDON, Saturday. A great mail-bag robbery resulted in the disappearance of £B,OOO worth of Treasury notes. There is no trace of them or of the thieves.
The packages of notes were taken by two officials from the Bournemouth branch of the National Provincial Bank to the post office. There they were registered as usual and placed in a mall-hag. This was sealed and placed on a London-bound train with many other bags. The train stopped oly at Southampton. On the arrival of the train at Waterloo Station the post office collectors noticed that one bag bore the seal of a post office other than that of Southampton. The seal had been broken and another one had been substituted. The bag was filled with waste-paper after the notes had been abstracted.
It is stated that in August, the chief holiday month at Bournemouth, the branch post office there transmits as much as £75,000 a week to London. — A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 141, 5 September 1927, Page 1
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