AMERICAN CRIME.
SOVIET I,'UNDS STOLEN. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Reuter’s Telegrams. Received 10.45 p.m., August 4. NEW YORK, August 3. The “New' York AYorld” reports the arrest of Roberto Gibario, charged with the theft of 136,000 dollars of the Russian Soviet’s funds. It is stated that a shortage of nearly 1,000,000 dollars was discovered in the'Soviet funds deposited in a New Y'ork bank. GANG OF AIAIL ROBBERS. The police are busy hunting down a gang of mail robbers and counterfeiters, whose alleged head is a man named John Worthington, and whose peculations total millions of dollars, including 1,000,000 from Toledo Bank, 300,000 from a Chicago Bank, 3,500.000 from Council Bluffs (Iowa) Bank. Among tho effects of the gang which the Government has seized w r ere nearly 500,000 dollars worth of its own bonds, iwhich have been identified as part of tho proceeds of the bank robberies.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 170576, 5 August 1921, Page 7
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