A WAR-TIME BURGLARY.
AUSTRIAN ESPIONAGE PLAN! ITALIAN LOCKSMITH'S COTTI (Received 10.30 a.m.) ROME, August 28. The Court is hearing a curious case i which Fopini, a master locksmith and a ex-convict, is claiming £20,000 rewar under Government promises. He allege that the Government employed him t burgle a safe in the Austrian Secr,et Se: vice at Zurich, offering him any mone he found therein and also £20,000 rewari The office was constantly guarded, bt Popini waited for months until the hea of the service, when attending a maske , ball, gave his staff a night off. Topii i seized the opportunity, and picking sei eral locks, reached the strongroom an • carried the safe by motor to Italy. Tl , safe was found to contain complete plar of the Austrian and German ospionaj in Italy.—(United Service.) ',
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 205, 29 August 1921, Page 5
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133A WAR-TIME BURGLARY. Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 205, 29 August 1921, Page 5
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