A PENITENT THIEF.
By Telegrapli.-Press ABBooi»tion.--Oopyilßlit. New York, May 24. Edward Boeck, one of the defenders of the Pekin Legations against the Boxers, and; afterwards superintendent of the Chinese Court at St. Louis Exhibition, through the influence of American millionaires, obtained from New York firms £50,000 worth of jewellery for £ sale among New ; York; visitors. :He pawned the jewellery and absconded, but has now returned the pawn tickets, thus reducing the actual loss to £16,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13498, 27 May 1907, Page 5
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75A PENITENT THIEF. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13498, 27 May 1907, Page 5
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