ROBBERY &PLUNDER

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10156, 30 December 1910, Page 5

ROBBERY &PLUNDER

OABLE_NEWS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

A WIDE-SPREAD SGHEME. THE POLICE INVESTIGATING. (Received Last Night, 10.35 o'clock.) LONDON, December 29. The police are impressed with the importance of the papers, written in Russian and Yiddish, which were discovered at the house occupied by Morountzeff. * The papers, when deciphered, revealed a wide-spread scheme of robbery and plunder. They indicated a number of places, upon which the police are concentrating their attention. in addition to the chemicals found, a number of mechanical appliances were discovered in the rooms. Merountzefr' posed as an artist. The neighbours state that he often worked throughout the night. A woman thirty years of age, and a middle-aged man, two respectablydressed foreigners, frequented the house. The police are endeavouring to trace the origin of fifty-seven pounds of cylinder gas, which was discovered at the scene of the recent burglary. An alien criminal in Parkhurst prison has informed the police that he is able to identify hundreds of accessories. The Chronicle states that the police are considering the theory that Merountzeff was the head of a gang who were preparing an Anarchist outrage during the Coronation festivities.