CAUGHT OUT
Flower-seller Albert Charles Boig, of North Kensington, London, thought he had easy game when a woman with an American accent bought flowers for three shillings and handed him a ~ note. He gave her fourteen shilling 3 change. The customer objected, called & policeman, and the flower-seller walked into Marylebone dock next day a ecu set , of short-changing. Boig explained ta cause of the trouble was that t American woman did not understa English coinage. . . "That is strange." said the victim. Mrs. Virginia Lee Hasson, '"because have lived in England for There are no flowers where Boig s„>e the next six days.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22498, 15 August 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)
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