Traveling light is definitely an issue for whoever packed a suitcase with 44 pounds of gold ingots and then left it on a train in Paris.
The pot-o-gold suitcase was abandoned, and the person who left it behind has yet to claim the stash worth $1 million dollars. The gold was not in the form of record-breaking nuggets, but in the shape of bars. Authorities believe the person traveling with the precious metal became afraid they would have to go through a police check and may have abandoned it for that reason. There are no official stamps or marks on the 20 ingots that can be used to trace them back to their owner.
Maybe authorities should look for a traveler who has been to Boca Raton and got a little carried away using the gold vending machine.
If the mystery person had dissolved the gold into liquid form like the chemists did to hide Nobel Prize medals from Nazis, they might not have had to leave their nest egg behind.
Until the original traveler comes forward to claim the gold, it is being held by French authorities. If no one ever claims the suitcase and its contents, it has yet to be determined if the conductor and rail employee who discovered it will get to recover the treasure. The other scenario has the state claiming the lost gold.