RABBIT PELT IN LOAF
FRAUD ON BAKERS. A man who tried to obtain compel] • sation by representing to a firm o bread manufacturers that he had eat en a portion of a loaf which containei a dead rat, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, at Glasgow recently, for attempted fraud. The prosecutor said the man Thomas Mitchell, called at a grocer’s shop at Bridgeton and produced a loai which he said his wife had bought the previous day. He complained that there had been a rat in the bread and ultimately signed a form and accepted payment for £3/10/- for compensation. Later he called at another firm of bread manufacturers in Glasgow and produced a portion of a loaf which Ire declared had a rat or a mouse in it. The firm had the loaf examined by a City analyst, and it was discovered that the substance was a singed portion of the pelt of a rabbit.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1936, Page 2
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