GOLD STOLEN FROM SONOMA.
FIVE BOXES TAKEN. VALUED AT £25,00&. NEW YORK, November 24. It is reported from San Francisco that five boxes of gold from Sydney on the Sonoma were stolen en route, the value being 125,000 dollars, consigned from the Commonwealth to the International Banking Corporation of San Francisco. Burgiar-proof locks on the safe were filed off and duplicates substituted to defy detection. It is thought that the bullion was landed at Honolulu. Many of the crew are under surveillance.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
TEW BOXES LEFT. SYDNEY, November 24. The Commonwealth Hank confirms the report of the theft of a portion of a cargo of gold shipped by the Sonoma, which sailed frnro Sydney to San Francisco on November -2. Besides the stolen. 10 other bor.es were shipped. Kach box contained £5,000.
T.li- gold was shipped only "20 minutes before thp steamer left, and was locked in the strongroom in the presence of bank :uid phip'a official*, so that there is no possibility that the robbery occurred in Sydney.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 281, 25 November 1921, Page 5
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175GOLD STOLEN FROM SONOMA. Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 281, 25 November 1921, Page 5
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