AMAZING POLICE COUP
PICTURES RECOVERED STRANGE STORY FROM PARIS (Australian and N.Z. Press Associationl Reed. 11 a.m. PARIS. Friday. The police recovered in amazing fas hi ori a picture by Murilio and two Tintorettos, which their owner, a picture dealer, had insured for 2,500,000 francs for transit to America. The pictures disappeared from a warehouse at Havre.
The police, suspecting an employee named Damman, tracked him ceaselessly for q month. Eventually, they heard that he was motoring to Havre to fetch the pictures. A police motor, following, had a puncture near Harfleur. The detectives resigned themselves to losing the trail, when 20 minutes later an unlighted lorry coming at full speed from Paris, stopped, and the occupants flung out u packing-case into a roadside ditch and went on.
The police salved the case, which contained the pictures. It is surmised that the men in the lorry mistook the police car for that of their accomplices, to whom they had arranged to hand over the booty. Damman and the lorry driver were arrested.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 608, 9 March 1929, Page 9
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