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SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 12, 1938.
£400,000 GOLD WORTHLESS' TO HOODED
Only One Town Can Refine Train Loot
Marseilles.
Every port and frontier Customs station in France has been ordered to keep watch for the masked gang who looted £100,000 worth of gold from a Marseilles-Avignon goods train recently,
Police have watched all roads leading into Marseilles. Every yard of the line between the city and the suburb of St. Barthelemy, where the robbery took place, has been searched. Watch is concentrated on Marseilles wharves, from which liners and freighters leave every hour for ports throughout the world.
Experts say that the gold was; addressed to a Belgian factory at Hoboken said to be the only one in Europe where such gold can be refined, and that there fore the bandits will be unable to get more than £500 for the 168 Ingots.
The train left St. Charles Station at 1.40 a.m. There were aboard two engine drivers, Plerre Ayme and Auguste Mourrier, who have made the trip together many times; Emile Depousier, the guard; and Achille
in Masclet, detailed to sit one of tho vans and keep watch on the gold.
It is believed that there must have
fifth unknown man been aboard who applied the brakes to let his accomplices swarm bboard and carry out the robbery, and who escaped with them.
men rushed towards us across tho little strip of vacant land beside the rallway..
"They wore black silk hoods, slit with eye-holes. Each man had o cocked revolver in his hand. They were all shouting, then they fired
valley of shots towards us.
One of "I dung myself down.
to me, saying. them rushed over Keep still, driver, or I'll shoot. We lay motionless while he stood guard over us
"His friends made at once for the Arst steel baggage car. seventeen big baskets inside. Two
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At left is Senator Vojta Benes, elder brother of President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia, as he arrived in New York on the Polish liner Batory, as an unofcial ambassador of good-will to the American people. At left is Vladimir Hurban, Czech Minister to the United States.
"This was the first time I hod I was been on this particular job.
I had replacing the regular man. been told that I was to keep special guard over the two stolen baskets."
"It was all over in a few minutes. Then we discovered that M. Masclet There were had been shot in the left wrist while
struggling to get at his revolver."
Both drivers said that what had of them contained gold from the
All senior members of the Mar- Belgian Congo, consigned to Bel-huppened was obvious, While the
Mostly
was gold ore, guard was telling the police our ft
story," said Ayme, "we found that seilles police force have visited the glum.
the door of the signal post of a train, which has been backed into a
siding. quartz, and unrefined gold ingots.
WAITING LORRY
wagon had been opened."
Seven years ago a similar train no doubt about "There must have been an accom- The men had
must have robbery was staged at Marseilles. what they wanted. They grabbed plice on the train. He
who then blocked the Charles. Outside St.The man the two treasure baskets, lugged gat in at St.
Only an ex-by the French railways for that Pierre Ayme said: "We were just them from the train, and crossed Barthelemy, at a prearranged point, brakes had formerly been employed
particular job. past St. Barthelemy Station, travel-the roadway about fifty feet away, he blocked the brakes.
pert would know how to do it."
woman at St. Barthelemy has ling at a good pace, when the train, where a motor lorry was waiting.
they bundled the heavy
I'LL SHOOT
told the police that she heard the was stopped. We hurried down to
I was bandits shouting, and watched the see the guard, thinking he must have basketa into the lorry one of them
M. Masclet said: "When shouted. Have you got everything." applied the emergency brakes.
Fingerprints found on the vans are "When we found he had not, all From the running-board of the train first hit, I lay still beside the track, lorry disappear towards Marseilles. another man shouted back. We've pretending, to be dead. Above me four of us began a search,
tories at Marcellies, "We were moving towards the got enough. The men boarded the some one was saying: 'One word and being examined at police labora-
I'll shoot.' front vanS when half a dozen lorry and vanished,
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£1,000 AWARD TO BÁNK CLERK
"Sting" In Statement To Minister JUDGE & MARRIAGE REGULATION
Damages of £1,000 were awarded in the Edinburgh Court of Session.re-. cently to William Edward Notman, the diamissed hunk clerk, In his slander action against the Commer- The Jury, cial Bank of Scotland. after an absence of an hour and 35 minutes, found for Notman by a majority of 10 to two.
Mr. Notman, who is 31, hnd sued the bank for £5,000, complaining of statement made by the Bank to the Minister of Labour, which, he said, on his capacity. He alleged reflected that the statement was made to cover the real reason for his dismissal which followed his announcement that he Intended to be married, in breach of the bank's regulation.
Hla salary was then £180 a year, And the bank's rule was that em- ' polyees should not marry until they were earning £200,
Referring in his summing-up to the statement to the Minister, Lord Keith remarked that its sting lay in the words, "the proximate, but not the chief cause of the dismissal."
"The suggestion is that the circum- stances were such as to justify the plaintiff's dismissal," said the Judge, "and that those circumstances were rot a breach of marriage regulations, but the fact that he had not respond- ed to training. I thing the words certainly may indicate that the plain- tiff was not efelent in his duties.
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"I direct you to find that the state- ment of the bank to the Minister of Thus the Labour was privileged.
Was
plaintiff must prove malice. that explanation to the Minister an attempt by the bank authorities to cxcuse themselves by attributing Norman's dismissal to a motive which was not the real or chief motive.
"If you think that the real or chief motive was his intention to murry, then you must find for the plaintiff.
"If the plaintiff has established malice to your satisfaction, then you must bring in a verdict for him."
On the question of damages. Lord Keith observed: "The statement to the Minister of Labour was published more than a year after Notman's dis- missal. There is no evidence that his unemployment was due any words complained of in the statement.
As
a matter of fact, he was out of em- ployment about three months before this statement came out at all.
rightly "I do not think you can rig
to the attribute any unemployment statement made. You are entitled to award the plaintiff damage for injury to his feelings, suffering and anxiety, and injury to his business reputation. The sum of £5,000 for slander of this kind, as has been admitted, is out of the question, but you are en- titled to give a substantial and a reasonable sum."
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Bedford He disappeared from hotel recently. To avoid alarming! his wife, Mr. Howard was not re- ported missing at once.
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