BETTING SWINDLE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18545, 4 May 1922, Page 7

BETTING SWINDLE

NORWEGIAN FINANCIER ROBBED. ARRESTS IN PARIS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. * . PARIS, May 2. (Received May 3, at 5.6 p.m.) \ At the request of the American Embassy, detectives arrested John Pincott (Melbourne) and Arthur Ernest Knox (a Londoner), commission agents, who left New York with 100,000 dollars. . They were staying at the Crillon, a most expensive hotel, in Paris. Only 20,000 francs were found in their possession. The charge against them was not disclosed. - NEW YORK, May 3. (Received May 3, at 9.5 p.m.) The men came to America in 1921, in company with Eric Skogstadt, a Norwegian bank president, aboard the Aquitania. After a casual acquaintance picked up in a London bar, the thlree travelled to Troy, New York State, where a horseracing and/ betting swindle resulted in Skogstadt losing dollars. Cpx and Prescott disappeared, and Skogstadt appealed to the Norwegian Consul, who enlisted . the services' of the, New York Police Department, which traced the men to ■ Paris, where they were arrested.—A. and N.Z. Cable.