PSEUDO-POLICEMEN.
"RAID" ON A GAMBLING CLUB. ONE THOUSAND POUNDS STOLEN. LONDON, March 5. The "Daily Chronicle" states that a pseudo-commissary of police, with six pseudo-pclicemen entered a gambling club in Paris. They relieved those present of a sum totalling £1,009, anJ then disappeared, not, however, before they had solemnly taken the names and addresses of all present. Some yeavi Bg9 ft similar "raid'' was made on a garnbiii.g club in Paris, Slid a larst arfceufit of money taken. The affair created tjuite a 3cr.i3tion, at tha time, as it was alleged that well-known members of French aristocracy weie amongst t!:c raiding party.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3132, 8 March 1909, Page 5
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102PSEUDO-POLICEMEN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3132, 8 March 1909, Page 5
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