INTERNATIONAL RING.
OF CHURCH THIEVES. Leader Arrested at ’Frisco. LOOT VALUED AT OVER HALF A MILLION. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn). (Received December 8 at 5.5 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 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 a hundred Catholic churches in the United States and Mexico have been robbed.
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Grey River Argus, 10 December 1928, Page 5
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114INTERNATIONAL RING. Grey River Argus, 10 December 1928, Page 5
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