RAILWAY ROBBERIES.
A DETECTIVE SENTENCED. FIVE PORTERS AND A CLERK ARRESTED. Received March 26, 10.54 p.m. LONDON, March 26. A"man named Brooks, a LondonNorth Western Railway detective, who was found in possession of thirtv one skeleton keys, a "jimmy," and a file for altering keys, was brought before the Court yesterday and sentenced to three years' imprisonment for several robberies on the line between Llandudno and Wolverhampton. The Court afterwards ordered the Company to pay £6OO, the value of the jewels lost on that section. Brooks travelled in the same corridor of the train as the owner of the jewels. Five porters and a clerk have been arrested for robberies at Euston. Three hundred and fifty pounds worth of stolen goods' have been recovered.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9050, 27 March 1908, Page 5
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124RAILWAY ROBBERIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9050, 27 March 1908, Page 5
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