MACABRE TRICK
Child’s Death Pretended PANAMA Detectives were puzzled when they saw a small new wooden coffin in the middle of the street in a residential area. Inquiries disclosed that youngsters found it bobbing in a nearby stream. Why, police asked each other, should anyone want to throw away a new casket made for a child? The mystery was solved when it became known that a confidence trickster had acquired the coffin by claiming hi® "daughter” was dead. The man, a former fishing captain, fooled his former employee and fellow workers into passing round a hat and giving him money. Sympathetic fisher folk even nailed together a "made-to-size’’ coffin after the father gave them the height of his “child.” With money in his wallet and the casket under his arm, the bereaved “father” departed; then dumped the box over the rail of the first bridge he passed.—Reuter.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30289, 15 November 1963, Page 24
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