“ALL IS NOT GOLD”
ASTUTE CONSPIRATORS WILY DEALER DEFRAUDED. TWO “SALTED” STATUES. (Australian Press Association,? (Received 10.6 a.m.) PARTS, August 10.
An ingenious frond was perpetrated 'by o couple of Greeks. One of them, .apparently an ignorant peasant, accompanied by a Greek officer in uniform, allowed it to be known that he was in possession of two ancient statues of pure gold, weighing 100 pounds. They sought a purchaser in a- wily Parisian dealer, who estimated the gold alone to be worth 1,000,000 francs. He went to the hotel where the plotters had taken up their quarters and offered 250,0*00 francs, stipulating that he should be allowed to take a sample of the metal. The peasant agreed, but suggested that the sample should be taken from under the arms of the (statues, in order that their artistic value might not be impaired. Analysis of the sample showed that it wag pure gold, and the money was thereupon paid oyer, bnt the dealer now finds that he paid £2OOO for two statues of gilded bronze, in which fragments of pure gold .were inserted under the arms. The Greeks have disappeared.
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Northern Advocate, 20 August 1929, Page 5
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