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DANCE HALL GENEROSITY A Belgian named Leon Martin Pillyser, who was arrested in a Montmartre cabaret, is alleged to have had 620 spurious bank-notes of 1,000 francs each sewn inside the lining of his clothes. Pillyser, who is an engraver, is said to have "confessed that he engraved the notes himself. His method of disposal, he is stated to have explained, was to hand over the notes to young women encountered at fashionable dance halls, with the instruction, to buy themselves a present and return to him with the change. The women generally spent most of the notes before returning. Pillyser, it is alleged, received in return, however, a certain number of genuine notes without running the risk of being arrested for trying to utter false money.
It was one of his unsuspecting agents, it Is added, who gave him away when tendering a note in payment for a pair of dance Bhoes.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6942, 22 June 1929, Page 13
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156FORGER DUPES GIRLS Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6942, 22 June 1929, Page 13
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