STUNNED WITH SPANNER
CROOK IN A MAILROOM.
£27,000 SECURITIES ABSTRACTED.
POLICE LED LIVELY CHASE,
(Deceived May 31, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 30
In response to a wireless message from the steamer George Washington that securities worth £27,000 had been stolen from the mail-room, two detectives went aboard the vessel at Plymouth and found remnants of food and oilier indications that someone had had been living in the mail-room. It was obvious that a thief had concealed himself there In New York, and after committing the theft was released by an accomplice when the steamer reached Brcmerhavcn.
A search discovered Albert Hoscnbcrg, an alleged international crook, in hiding. lie led the detectives a lively chase all over the ship before ho was stunned with a spanner and arrested.
A sailor named Barra was also arrested as a supposed accomplice of Boscnberg, who was kept aboard the steamer for return to Now York. After some days' detention lie showed the detectives where the whole of Hie missing securities were hidden.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16810, 31 May 1926, Page 5
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