A shipment with the wrong contentsSourced
The gold boxes reached Paris with lead inside
On 15 May 1855, gold bound for France was stolen from a train in England and replaced with lead. The boxes continued across the Channel. Weighing in France revealed discrepancies, and opening them in Paris exposed the substitution.
Delivery of the boxes was not delivery of their intended contents.
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