contribution #489

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{
  "subject": "karras_theodoros_athens",
  "verb": "hired",
  "object": "linnett_thomas_r",
  "confirmation": "Confirmed. Karras approached Linnett at the Strand entrance the evening of 19 November 1879, named two hundred pounds in five-pound notes already counted into a clean linen envelope, and obtained the substitution before Linnett locked the firm's box. Karras took the original colombina by cab to Liverpool Street the following morning at half-past nine."
}