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Mail Bags Looted On Liner On High Seas
Two mail theft plots were under investigation in New York as authorities linked an on ship mail bag looting on the Mongolia and a rail mail misdirection scheme. Five men were arrested, including three seamen from Hamburg aboard the Minnekahda, and two Grand Central mail transfer supervisors, Wiegand of New Canaan and Gorski of Brooklyn, tied to the schemes.
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New York
High Seas
Grand Central Terminal
Hamburg
Immer Minnekahda
Louis W Wiegand
New Canaan
Gonn
Rudolph H. Gorskie
Brooklyn
Méeasman
Minnekahda
Mongolia
North Sea
Gorski
Wiegand
Stamford
Conn
John Kine