MAN IN A TRUNK.
SHOP THIEVES' RUSE. An idea borrowed and adapted from the "Arabian Nights" by modern shop thieves was related to a Court in Vienna recently. Just beforo closing time a man drovo up to one of tho large leather emporiums with a heavy wardrobe trunk, rife bought a second of about the same size, and received. permission to leave bolli in tho shop on deposit, until the next morning, when ho wished to catch a train.
Accordingly tho next morning tho purchaser called, paid for the new trunk, and took both away. Shortly afterwards the manager of the shop noticed that goods amounting to more than £IOO0 # in value wore missing. Police inquiries showed that tho first heavy trunk contained an accomplice, who during the nigh!, filled tho new trunk with leather goods from the* shop, and tho next morning was carrier! away inside, the trunk.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19447, 1 October 1926, Page 18
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