MELTING DOWN COINS.
BEMARKABIjE discoveries. I’AIUS, Feb. 20.—There is a development of the affair in ■connection with which several. persons were arrested m a, Paris Hat, where .several tons of gold and silver coins valued al 2,5C0,C09ir. were melted down in a month. The police made it their business to iitid out. where the gold and silver ingots were disposed of, and, another inquiry led to the arrest of live persons, including 'Marie, a metal changer, who, it seems, was interested in an elegant reslamant at Fontainebleau, and boasted of his IKiiiitieal relations. It- is alleged ilint lie was the man who got riil\of the ingots. At the residence' of Bourgeois, also arrested, gold and silver ingots were found. There, is a suggestion that some of the ingots were sent to Holland by aeroplane, and that Marie, supposed to be the chief of the band, paid only two francs a kilogramme (a. little over 2ib), for melting down the coins, which were brought to Paris from outlying districts by motor car.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17009, 16 April 1926, Page 3
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