AMIABLE STRANGER.
GIVES A £1571 CHEQUE
YET MAKES A NICE PROFlfr
Scotland Yard detectives are search, ing for a trickster whose offers to invest in a sound enterprising business are merely a ruse to relieve business people of their capital. A Portsmouth man who replied to the “financierV’ advertisement received a call from him and an offer to invest £ISOO in his business. An agreement was drawn up and the visitor then produced a cheque for £1571, with a plausible excuse to account for the extra £7l, He was handed a cheque for £7l as his change and made himself so agreeable that his victim also handed him five handbags as a'present for his wife.
The cheque for £1571 came back from the bank marked “Signature differs,” Nothing more has been heard of the handbags. _____
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1927, Page 6
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135AMIABLE STRANGER. Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1927, Page 6
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