Mysterious Rifling of Registered Mail Between New York and England: Large Haul Made by Thieves fe London, June 23.
One of the biggest robberies of ocean mails ever made was discovered on the arrival.in London to-that all the registered bags were in perfect condition and sealed, and placed in ordinary mail-begs and conveyed to the pier by armed men, day of registered mail-bags brought to Southampton from the. United States by the 60,000-ton " United States Shipping Board liner Leviathan.
It is at present impossible to assess the value of the stolen property, which, however, is estimated at £100,000, It seems certain that the robbery was committed at New York before embarkation of the mails, The bags were in the ship's strong-room during th voyage sand an armed guard placed over them. it! They were distributed from the ship to the various London and provin-cell eitie direct under the greatest Precautions.
The plan is for registered package bags to be fastened with small lead United States Post Office seal. These are then placed in unregistered ioags, which are sealed, The sorters in one of the London district offices who handled the reistered section of the mail found the lead seals intact but on breakig the latter discovered that the envelopes: inside had been lit, open and everything negotiable abstracted, The careful selection indicated thay there had been no hurry.
Reports were country of similarly rifled bags—Reuter, New York, June 24, Postal inspectors here do not think that the Leviathan's mailbags were tampered with before she sailed from New York. They say
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