TATTOOED MAN’S TRICK
The police at Seaforth, Lancashire, who are investigating a strange story, have asked Scotland Yard to assist them in tracing a tattooed man they wish to interview. This is how events began.
The man is supposed to have told a Seaforth undertaker that his mother had been killed in Brixton, London, and instructed the undertaker to meet a train which, he stated, was bringing the body home. The expenses of funeral arrangements were discussed. The undertaker’s caller said he would be receiving sums from two burial clubs. On the strength of this he borrowed a sum of money and went away As arranged the undertaker took a hearse to the station. He waited in .vain for the body, and then realised he had been tricked.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22999, 30 September 1936, Page 3
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128TATTOOED MAN’S TRICK Otago Daily Times, Issue 22999, 30 September 1936, Page 3
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