Wholesale Gold Robberies.
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) Beceived this day*: at 10.7 a.m. V PERTH, This day.
The' detective detailed 1 - to inquire into allegations ■ that wholesale robberies of gold were going on in "Ealgoorlie states that his investigations prove that hundreds of thousands of ounces of gold are stolen annually, and that there were men at Kalgoorlie with enormous banking accounts, who liyed in the lap of luxury solely by means ot stolen gold. There were others who held dummy leases and banked hundreds of ounces of gold which never came from such leases, but was obtained in an illegal manner. Warden Dowley has also presented a report in which he does not think much gold is stolen, in which opinion he is backed up by a number of mine managers. ,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8145, 25 July 1906, Page 5
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