The Archive · 1937

Losses in Baggage Car Theft

Total Amount Claimed by Passengers Is $200

All the nineteen pieces of Iuggage, celiher slightly damaged or ransacked by a thief oF thieves, have been removed by their owners from. the North Railway Station, and the total losses claimed by them amounted to approximately $200, Mr, Chen Kuo-Hang, the Chief Station Master, informed the "North-China Herald" on Ape The baggage car, which was rob bed, was attached to a Nanking-'Shanghat express which arrived 9.25 pin. on April 16. In all, it caried 61 pieces, out of which 42 were Untouched. Of the nineteen pieces, six were removed by passengers the Same night as they were only slightly damaged. The losses of $200 claimed by passengers were made up as follows: approximately §70 damage six pieces owned by a foreign rail way adviser; $50 and a gold ring reported lost by uw girl student from Nanking; $10 worth of articles, by Chinkiang passenger; $28 and a gold ring, by a Nanking passenger; and about $20 worth of gold ornaments, by a member of the railway Following investigation, the railway police held it most probable that the rime was perpetrated by one thief.

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