Of Scotland Yardxx-xx-xx xxx Great Gold Robbery

The old boys, the store- In 1855, the gold coins and bars were delivered in three iron-bound boxes to London Bridge Station to be dispatched by the South East and Railway to the continent. These boxes had been sealed and weighed by the carriers.

At the railway station, they were placed in safes that were considered impregnable and transferred to the Folkestone boat train under care of the guard. Each safe had two locks and duplicate keys were in the position of trusted servants of the railway company at London Bridge, at Folkton, and with the captain of a channel boat.

At Wolline, the safes were opened and as a matter of blue team, the boxes were weighed before being sent onto Paris. I cannot understand it. This number two came. It weighed 40 pounds less than it should do according to the pay pair.

Maybe they make a mistake in London. What about the other boxes? Ooh, they weigh about the same. Except for the fourth box. That weigh a little more. There must be something wrong with their scales in London.

Anyway, they are still upright. What had we better do? Send them on to Paris. And so it was on and all the boxes reached Paris that they were opened. What's this? Look, not gold. Eggs and tags have led shot 200 pounds.

Worth the day a small fortune, an even at this time of a value exceeding 12,000 pounds, had been extracted. In its place where neatly sewn, bags of lead shot. Somewhere between London and Paris, one of the cleverest robbers of the age had been perpetrated. Nowhere was the slightest trace of how the trick had