CAUGHT OUT
Elowor-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 £1 note. lie gave her fourteen shillings change. .... - The customer objected, called a policeman, and the flower-seller walked into Marylebone dock next day accused of short-changing. Boig explained the cause of the trouble was that the American woman did not understand English coinage. . ~ "That is strange,” said the victim, Mrs Virginia Lee Hasson, “because 1 have lived in England for 16 years.” There are no flowers where Boig spent the next six days.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22963, 19 August 1936, Page 18
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104CAUGHT OUT Otago Daily Times, Issue 22963, 19 August 1936, Page 18
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