CHURCH ROBBERS’ GANG
CHIEF ARRESTED VALUABLE LOOT FOUND (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Servicel Reed. 1.33 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO, Fri. The police to-day recovered stolen church goods valued’ at more than £IOO,OOO. They arrested a man giving the name of Joseph Bauer, at Los Angeles, as the head of an international ring of church thieves. The loot included gold chalices, altar cloths, vestments, carpets, gold candelabra, and jewels. The police said Bauer confessed that he was implicated in other thefts in Los Angeles and Eastern States, and in Europe, More than 100 Catholic churches in the United States and Mexico have been robbed, the police said.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 532, 8 December 1928, Page 1
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