BIG MAIL BAG ROBBERY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16475, 20 October 1927, Page 2

BIG MAIL BAG ROBBERY

£BOOO TO £IO,OOO IN NOTES. WASTE PATER. SUBSTITUTED. LONDON, Sept. 4. The Post office special investigation department is inquiring into the r istippeavanee of notes, understood to amount to between £BOOO and £IO.OOO ■ front a mail bag while being conveyed from Bournemouth to London on *- * dav One of the bags on the evening inaii train was apparently tampered •with somewhere on the journey, and tlie v notes abstracted. • • Although the police and tailwaj - authorities are very reticent regarding the details of the robbery, they ait understood to.be convinced tla " thieves had inside knowledge °t ,t li. transit, of valuable packages, and ete\. Jv planned to steal them. The bag was consigned from tin Bournemouth branch oi the Nutiou.il Provincial Batik to London by the 6.38 exoress It was part ot the ordinal > mail,, and Vras taken from the Bournemouth Post Office to the station m ordinary way by van, and the ';igs placed in the mad coach ot the t \vhen it arrived at Bournemouth horn Weymouth. , .. It is stated that at Waterloo d was discovered that one of the bags had been opened and the notes taken, the bag filled with waste paper and the seals replaced. The train only made one stop, viz.,, at South amp top, between bournemouth and London. . The train arrived at Waterloo at 845 p.rn and special officers immediately Unveiled to the station and interrogated some oi the mail porters .un officials. U is significant that they warned all the persons who were questioned not to give any publicity 1o the theft,,