TREASURY NOTE THEFT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 90, 16 April 1923, Page 7

TREASURY NOTE THEFT

MYSTEBY BAFFLES POLICE.

(DNITED PMBB ASSOCIATION.—COPMIBHT.) (AUBIBAUAN . NEW JBAUND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 13th April. The Treasury note 4,heft is regarded as one of the most baffling. the police have ever encountered. The officials saw the box safely.deposited in a wooden safe used for valuable parcels. An astonishing- fact is that the Bradford bank authorities did not inquire regarding its whereabouts until thirty-six hours after arrivaJ.

The police believe that the theft was the work' of a cleverly organised London $arijr, which carefully planned it,- and it 13 thought that the thieves possessed keys to the safe. Being a new issue, the numbers ar« known. This may help in detection, if an attempt is made to oireulate them, though the thiavos have a long start.

A previous message stated:—•

Scotland Yard is engaged in investigating the mysterious robbery of a new issue of Treasury notes, valued at £17,----500, from Bradford parcels office on Tuesday. A bullion box, was forwarded , from. London and placed in a railway office on Tuesday; it was missed later. There were no signs that the office had been broken into. The theory ia that the robbery was carried out by a gang of experts, who travelled in a. train containing the notes, and took a note of where they were stored.