THE TIMES.
7th NOV, 1912.
THEFTS FROM THE OLD BAILEY
Since the beginning of the present sessions of the Central Criminal Court complaints have been made of the loss of overcoats and umbrellas from the barristers' clerks' room at the Old Bailey. The apartment is on the floor of the Sessions House immediately above that on which the Courts are situated. It will be remembered that a few months ago the housekeeper's office on the ground floor was broken into and the safe robbed of about £30 in gold, but no clue to the perpetrator or perpetrators of the robbery has yet been discovered, In the course of the last sittings another incident of a mysterious nature was brought to light. It was found that telephone communication between the building and the various police stations had been severed by the cutting of the wires in the basement, the effect of which might have been to cause extreme inconvenience in the administration of justice.
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