The Great Gold Robbery takes place on…
May 1855 CE
A total of two hundred pounds (ninety-one kilograms) weight of gold, worth around £12,000 (equal to £1,101,507 in 2018) is stolen en route to Folkestone, from where the gold is to be shipped across the English Channel to Boulogne.
Four police forces in Britain and France will make extensive inquiries for months and arrest hundreds of suspects for questioning but find nothing.
Afterwards many of those who had handled the boxes will report small discrepancies like holes and broken seals.
The main suspects are railway staff members at Folkestone.
The South Eastern Railway will offer a sizeable reward and name its own investigator but will receive only false information.
The official British theory is that the robbery had taken place on the continent, while the French police will claim it had happened in England because of the discrepancy in the boxes' weights at Boulogne.
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