CLERGYMEN VICTIMISED.
"BRIDEGROOM" CHANGES COUNTERFEIT NOTES. Fifty Chicago clergymen have discovered that they had been defrauded in a novel and ingenious way. Tho previous day a young man and woman presented themselves at tho house of one of the most prominent clergymen in the city, and, exhibiting a wedding license, asked to be married. The clergyman married them" in li:s drawingroom, which is a perfectly legal procedure in that country. After the wedding the bridegroom said that ho would like to give the clergyman 30 dollars (£6) as a fee, but unfortunately lie had no change, and would bo obliged to offer the clergyman a 50-dollar bill (£10). The clergyman accepted the banknote, handing the man 20 dollars (£4) in change. He afterwards discovered that the banknote was a counterfeit, but not until the next day did it come out that in all the couple had victimised'so clergymen. The police believe that the man and woman belong to a gang of counterfeiters who have taken this novel method to dispose of their " flash" notes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14835, 11 November 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)
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174CLERGYMEN VICTIMISED. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14835, 11 November 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)
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