GRIM PENALTY
ATTEMPT TO SMUGGLE ITALIAN CURRENCY United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 9, 5.5 p.m.) ROME, December 9. Marchesa Godi Di Godio, formerly Miss Violet Kay, an Englishwoman, whose husband is a retired diplomat, also a former Jewish stockbroker, Sacerdoti, and a third man, Orta, were fined £3500 and recommended for banishment to penal islands, for trying to smuggle £lO,OOO worth of lira notes from the country. The bank notes, which were found in the Marchesa’s sleeping berth on the Rome-Paris express, will partly defray the fines.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21216, 10 December 1938, Page 17
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89GRIM PENALTY Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21216, 10 December 1938, Page 17
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