“SPANISH PRISONER” FRAUD
GULLIBLE PEOPLE CAUGHT
(Received 11 a.m.) PARTS, May 2
The extent of a Spanish treasure fraud is shown by the fact that, despite publicity in the newspapers of the world, about 200 people last year called at the cloak room of the Perrache station, .Lyons, for a trunk which they fondly hoped would ‘ contain £20,000 worth of French bank notes. Each, victim has been in Spain and paid £4OO for the cloak room ticket, as a Spanish “prisoner’’ Was- unable to go to Lyons. The officials of the Lyons station are quite accustomed to tragi-comie ■ scenes when the truth is revealed to the visitors.
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Northern Advocate, 3 May 1933, Page 5
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