WOMAN HOAXED
AUSTRALIAN TRICKSTER - SEARCH FOR WIFE FRAUD LONDON, April 40 "It seems a dream—too good to be true," said Miss Ruth Bell, aged 40, of Sutterton, when ordering her trousseau in preparation for a voyage to Victoria to wed a man she had never seen. ..... . The man had appealed to the Mayor of Boston, Lincolnshire, Mr. J. H. Mounting, six months ago for "a good, true woman from the dear homeland as a wife." Miss Bell cabled £ls passage monev, in the belief that the ticket would be cheaper to buy in Australia, only to learn that others have been similarly victimised. Tearfully she unpacked her trousseau.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23018, 21 April 1938, Page 11
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