SUSPICIOUS FIRE
LARGE QUANTITY OF STOCK
MISSING.
(Pbess Association.—•Copxeight)^
MELBOURNE, Feb. 13. At an inquiry 'into a at Jay's drapery stores, owned by Jacob Epetem, ; Ui© evidence showed that the stock; was. insured for £3,000. Epstein, s who has been declared insolvent, has •.disappeared.'' The' coroner, in summing up; said the circumstances of the fir© were, {brimful of suspicion, ami pointed to a conspiracy. The evid ■ence showed that the■; shelves, were filleS with a beggarly array of empty boxes, and a shortage of stock which on/the' book value was worth £3OOO. * "
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 14 February 1914, Page 5
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