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Show THIEVES GET FORTUNE IN LIBERTY BONDS NEW YORK, Aug. 1 3. Liberty bonds valued at 223,000, were stolen yesterday from two brokerage firms in the financial district here. It was learned at police headquarters today. The stolen bonds In each instance had been Intrusted to messengers mes-sengers who have disappeared. Richard Whitney & Co. were the victims vic-tims of the larger theft. This firm dispatched dis-patched a messenger with $178,000 worth of bonds to the offices of Kidder, Pea-body Pea-body &. Co., brokers, across the street from the Whitney offices. The bonds consisted mostly of victory notes, although among them were some of the earlier issues. The messenger, a boy, did not deliver the bonds and the police are searching for him. The other thefts were from Simmons & Slade, whose losses totaled $45,000 in Liberty Lib-erty bonds of the second issue. They were stolen under circumstances similar to those under which the bonds of Whitney Whit-ney & Co. were taken. |