A REMARKABLE ROBBERY.
[Per R.M S. Sonoma. | A remarkable robbery wasperpetrat <1 in Chicago on October 21t,t. Thieves tunnelled some distance and then boied through a steel floor in order frj reach plunder, and succeeded in carrying off over 74,000 dollais' worth of United States postage stamps. If they had calculated the distance six fee . to ihwest of thn point where they entered th>y would undoubted.y huve curried off nearly 40,000 dolla; ss in cash and 800,000 in stumps. Tho pnstmast. rin charge is responsible for the loss until an Act of Congress frees him from it A horse and wapgon were in waiting to carry away the loot, and as yet no definite clues have been found as to the guilty parties. The robbery was dhcovered when the chief clerk of the stamp department opened the vaiilt in the morning,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 270, 15 November 1901, Page 2
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141A REMARKABLE ROBBERY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 270, 15 November 1901, Page 2
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