CHURCHES ROBBED
GANG-LEADER ARRESTED. (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) SAN FRANCISCO, December 7. The police to-day recovered stolen church goods, valued at more than half a million dollars, and arrested a man giving the name of Joseph Bauer, of Los Angeles, as head of an international ring of church thieves. The loot included gold chalices, altar cloths, vestments, carpets, gold candelabra and jewels. The police said that Bauer confessed he was implicated in others in Los Angeles, the Eastern States, and Europe. More than 100 Catholic churches in the United States and Mexico have been robbed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1928, Page 4
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