MAN IN PETTICOATS
SMUGGLER OF DRUGS TWENTY-TWO POCKETS h» Cable,-— Press Association. — Copyright. BERLIN, Wednesday. British and German police who have been co-operating in various countries have unearthed an international organisation for smuggling drugs. It was discovered that an elegantlyiressed Russian woman emigre from Marseilles was in the habit of meeting a Russian from Hong-Kong. They were both searched and in their large amount of luggage a quantity of heroin v as discovered. The man wore pettiaaats, each with 22 pockets for packets. A search of flats where the woman's acquaintances lived revealed the key "fa strongbox in a Berlin bank, in which was discovered a coda for correspondence by which the pair communicated with each other. — A. and ■VZ.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 169, 7 October 1927, Page 1
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