1400 SOVEREIGNS LOST
DIVERS SEARCH THAMES
LONDON, April I
Divers searched the Thames lied off Gravesend to-day for a, package containing 140(1 sovereigns. It is believed that tiie gold was lost while being brought ashore from the Greek .steamer Constantinos H early this morning. The package was one of three containing a total of 500 U sovereigns brought to London as part payment for a ship. An agent waited at Gravesend with a f-ondon taxi at the waterside ready to take tho money and some securities to London. He hired a Gravesend boatman to bring the money ashore. A number of packages in two small leather cases were lowered into tho boa.! and landed at the Xew Bridge causeway. They wero then .placed in the taxi which took them to London. When the money was counted later it, was found that the 1400 sovereigns were missing.
Scotland Yard officers who have been making inquiries nre anxious to cpiestion the taxi-driver, but lie has not yet been traced.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19370531.2.145
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19338, 31 May 1937, Page 13
Word Count
1671400 SOVEREIGNS LOST Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19338, 31 May 1937, Page 13
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.