LUGGAGE FRAUDS
MANY TOURISTS DUPED A very extensive fraud on the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway Company in connection with the registration of luggage has just been disclosed —or, rather, some of those alleged to be implicated have just been tracked down. fche existence of the system of fraud has been suspected for some time. It was operated principally on the journey between Marseilles and London, and was dependent on collaboration between railway employees and unscrupulous interpreters. An interpreter would explain to a passenger with a large quantity of luggage that this would, in the ordinary course, cost 500 francs (£4), but that if he cared to give a tip of 100 francs the matter could be arranged for 200 francs. This meant a saving of a couple of hundred francs to the passenger, while the 100 francs would be divided among dishonest participants who had devised an elaborate system of falsification of luggage weights. Two railway employees and three tourist agency men were lately arrested.
This sort of thing has, it is said, Veen going on for four years, and the extent to which the railway company has been robbed is to be gathered from the confession of one of its servants. He said that his share of the plunder during that period was 40,000 francs (£320).
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 197, 20 August 1929, Page 11
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