BREAKING UP THE GANG

Evening Star, Issue 18263, 1 May 1923, Page 7

BREAKING UP THE GANG

POLICE ACTIVITIES.

AMERICAN BANKER VICTIMISED.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

PARIS, April 30. _ Charles Edward Holloway, an American. and Francis O’Brien, an Australian, who were arrested, are supposed to he members of the international gang. The arrests followed complaints by Mr Louis Rubin, an American banker, who was victimised on Thursday at Brussels to the extent of £2,000 by a confidence trick. Mr Rubin came to Paris with a detective, where he recognised a portrait of O’Brien as the man who had robbed him. The police went to an hotel in the Rue do Rivoli, where they learned that O’Brien had gone to Cherbourg to join the Mauretania. but they arrested Holloway, an alleged accomplice. O’Brien’s description was telegraphed to Cherbourg, but during: the train journey he changed everything he wore, including his socks and gold-rim:rned spectacles. His appearance was so altered that two Americans, who were travelling in the same compartment, were wrested. The error was discovered before the Mauretania sailed, and O’Brien vras arrested as he was boarding the boat. He vigorously protested that he was an English citizen, bub the nolice searched his luggage, ana found £2.600 in English, French, and Belgian money hidden in a shirt in ins travelling bag. , , Holloway has been identified as one ot three men who tried to swindle an American shoe merchant in September. _ He was captured after a struggle, m which he was shot by a detective, and was sent to a hosoital. He was later released on condition that he left the country, Senor Santos, a Spanish business man, on Saturday gave evidence that Warren had swindled him of £1,650. lit. Monrecon. a Frenchman, in evidence, said that Warren had cheated him of £4,000. —A. and N.Z. Cable.