The Archive · 1940

Robbery in French

Palais de Justice 500,000 Frances Taken By Men Posing as German Officials Paris, Oct. 3.

Peris; poliee arrested two Frenchmen today and were seeking a third who escaped with 1,500,000 francs from the Palais de Justice here.

aal German officials and false identification papers to prove the fact, the thieves obtained a key from the records clerk And gained admission to the room where the cash was kept under seal pending à fraud trial.

The arrests coincided with a police against swindling and profifering. Several hundred arrests have been made in the campaign and many shops have. been closed as a result of price raising.

Both German and French police have warned of the strictest penalties to be meted out to price racketeers.

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