NOTES-FOR-GOLD TRICK.
VARIATION OF FRAUD.
With a slight variation, the notes-for-gold trick has succeeded again in Melbourne. Francis Ruskin, labourer, reported to the police recently that he met n man while coming out of the customs offices in Flinders Street. When Ruskin told the man that he was going to England, the man offered to get him English money in notes. Thoy walked to the Treasury Building, where Ruskin gave the stranger £lO in notes. Ruskin waited on the footpath while the man went inside, tmi hj« did not return*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20302, 9 July 1929, Page 13
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90NOTES-FOR-GOLD TRICK. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20302, 9 July 1929, Page 13
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