LUCK OF THE POLICE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 56, 9 March 1929, Page 7

LUCK OF THE POLICE

STORY OF STpLEN PICTURES

THROWN iINTO A DITCH Australian' Press Assoclat'on.—United Serrlc*.

(Received 9th Marciji, 1.30 p.m.) ■ PARIS,V;Bth March. The police recovered ip an amazingl fashion a Murillo oil paJmting and two TintorettO3, which the) owner, a picture dealer, had iusurtM for 2 ; 500,000 francs.for transit to /America. < The pictures disappeared (from ' a warehouse; at Havre. The" police, suspecting an employeo njamed Damman, tracked him ceaselessly for a mouth, and eventually heard lt>° was motoring to Havre to fetch tPo pictures 'back to Paris. The polieo (motor which was following him had. &' punctured tire near Harfleur,, and tfte detectives had resigned themselves l£° ..losing , the trail when twenty miSfi^s later an unlighted lorry approachcdS«i3>J fullspeed on '.the way to Paris. 1$ was stopped, but the occupants flung ottt a packing case- into the roadside di!i£ n and went\on. The police salved t%B case, which was found to contain the missing pictures. It is surmised that tlio men on the lorry mistook the police car for that of an accomplice, to whom they had arranged to hand over the booty. Damman and the lorry driver were later arrested.,