STOLEN BULLION.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4397, 28 November 1912, Page 5

STOLEN BULLION.

DARING THEFT OF £IO,OOO. Electric Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. London. Last Night. Earlier in the month 10,000 sovereigns were stolen and replaced by lead in a consignment of 200,000 sovereigns sent to Egypt. It now appears that the money was consigned by the Bank of England to the Credit Lyonnais, at Alexandria, and the boxes bore the seals of both banks. Th seals were intact on the arrival of the boxes at Alexandria. After the lids of tho boxes had been secured by iron hands and the gold was taken in vans to St. Katherine’s Dock, and placed on a steamer for Bremen. Between Bremen and Trieste there were four changes of trains. When received at Alexandria the contents of two eases rattled, and Lloyds’ agent was called to investigate. He opened the boxes and found l«ad of exactly equivalent weight to the gold. The police believe that the theft occurred between Bremen and Trieste, when the gold was in the charge of the German postal authorities. The frequent changes of railway guards would facilitate the theft. The loss falls on Llovds.