SHIPPING SWINDLE.
FOUR ITALIANS DISAPPEAR. AFTER FLEECING COMPATRIOTS OF MILLIONS. •‘THE BIRDS HAVE FI/OWN.” [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 10. hour brothers conducting a steam- * ship ticket agency, taking deposits from llieir Italian co-nationalists, ■ although without a State license ta j! operate a savings bank, collected , sums believed to total two million dol- ; lars, and to-day disappeared. Two thousand immigrants stormed the i doors of the institution, but their 5 [ efforts to find the brothers proved .[futile. Four days ago the agency - [was closed, and this ultimately ex--1 [cited the suspicions of the depositors, 31 who started a search for the men. it only to find that the latter, with their families, had gone.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2593, 12 March 1923, Page 5
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