HOW A JEWELLER WAS SWINDLED.
j The “gentleman alighted from a 1 well-appointed brougham at the door of a London silversmith's shop and purchased a considerable quantity of plate, in payment of which he tendered a hundred-pound note, and received a small balance.
! He carried tho plate away with him in the brougham, and shortly afterj wards a “policeman” called at the shop to say that he had heard of the { purchase, and to inform the silversmith that the note tendered in payment was a bad one. He was glad to add, however, that the thief had been apprehended, and requested him to attend at the police-station at a certain hour in the afternoon to identify j the prisoner. | He told the silversmith that it would be necessary for him to give up the bad note to facilitate the preliminary inquiries, and this the latter did, obtaining a formal receipt. ( On going to the police-station the unfortunate shopkeeper found that he had been hoaxed. The “gentleman” I and the “policeman” were both memj bers of the light-fingered fraternity, 1 and the note was a good one.
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Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 46, 19 June 1906, Page 2
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