THEFT OF TREASURY NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17017, 16 April 1923, Page 4

THEFT OF TREASURY NOTES.

THE POLICE BAFFLED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, April 14. . The Treasury note theft is regard.d as one of the most baffling the police have ever encountered. The railway officials saw the box containing tlu notes safely deposited in a wooden sale used for valuable parcels. An astonishing fact is that the Bradford bank authorities did not inquire regarding its whereabouts until thirty-six hours after its arrival. Th© police believe that the theft was the work of a cleverly organise ! London gang, which carefully planned it, and it is thought that the thieve l : possessed keys of the safe. Being a new issue of notes, the numbers are known, and this may help in the detection if an attempt i made to circulate them, though tli3 thieves have a long start. A previous message stated :—Scotland Yard is engaged in investigating of Treasury notes, of tfie value ot £17,500. from the Bradford parcels office on Tuesday. A bullion box was forwarded from Loudon and placed in the railway office on Tuesday, and was missed on that day. There were no signs that the office had been broken into. The theory is that the robberv was carried n-u by a par; 4 of r y ; , vbo travelled in th© train containing the notes, and who took a note of where they were stored.