HEAVY FINE IMPOSED
Attempt To Smuggle Lira
Notes From Italy
(Received Decomber 9, 9.45 p.m.)
ROME, December 9.
The Marchesa Godi dl Godio, formerly Miss Violet Kay, an Englishwoman, whose husband is a retired diplomat, and also a former Jewish stockbroker named Sacerdoti, and a third man named Orta, were fined £3500 and recommended for banishment to the penal islands for trying to smuggle £lO,OOO worth of lira notes from the country. Banknotes which were found in the Ma rehesa’s sleeping berth on the RomeParis express will partly defray the fines.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 66, 10 December 1938, Page 11
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