HAM FOR NOTHING
ic^ TOm wtat a suburban grocer told a • °u fc"^ re Presentative to-day somebody m the Aewtown area appears to have developed the practice of getting goods by systematic fraud. He said he had lost a ham, or rather that a man had got one from him for nothing. The gentleman rang the shop on the telephone, and ordered a ham which, he said, he would call for. The ham was wrapped up, and then in response to another telephone message it was sent by a boy to a certain address. When the boy got to the house he was met by a man coming out who asked the boy if he was looking for a Mr. . On the boy saying "yes," the man questioned him about some fruit he alleged he had ordered. The ham was handed ftver, and the man said he would pay for it when he called at the shop for the fruit. However, he made no call and it was found later that the house was locked up and had been so for some little time.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 127, 25 November 1929, Page 10
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HAM FOR NOTHING
Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 127, 25 November 1929, Page 10
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