SMUGGLING CHARGE.
GOLD INTO UNITED STATES.j CASE OF NEW ZEALANDER. ! (0.C.) MONTREAL, March 15; . Charges of aiding and abetting Leo E. -Moriand, of Xew Zealand, to smuggle . 57,000 dollars in gold bars into the United States and of perjury, have beenj s laid by Royal Canadian Mounted Police j • against a Vancouver, 8.C., jeweller, 5 Martin Jacoby, 57, and his son, Norbert, t 2B. The father, who faces both charges, 1 appeared in Vancouver Police Court on . March 10, and was remanded. The son is » charged oa>*y with perjury. a was arrested on February 10 5 by uTs. Custom officials, who charged| he attempted to smuggle the gold bars into the United States in a car. Shortly after his arrest, R.C.M.P. found another >54 bars of gold, worth 1000 dollars each, ) hidden in a trunk in a room Morland had j rented in a Vancouver office building. '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 81, 5 April 1941, Page 7
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