The stolen hats were at fret disposed of through a relative of one the weeks passed the gang became more confident, screening It Is doubted who More than halt a dozen foreign their cargoes pil The thefts spread over fairly long periods until recently there had. been 0 eaton to suspect that they were the work of an organized gang. In the beck room at the ringleader's hous in the Small East Gate, however, electives found stencils and other apparatus that have led to the pellet the markings on cases had be tly copied and that in some Instances bogus cases had been substituted for those in the consignments One firm reports that two cas a cargo sent by them io. Marseil had evidently "been substituted this way. "On being opened in Mai seilles they were found to have been carefully packed with old Chinese newspapers.
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