A LARGE-SCALE HOAX
Beer, cheese, barbed wire, coal —a hoaxer deluged his victim with great quantities of them at Lea, near Malmesbury, Wilts, England, recently. Mr Maurice Alsop, a farmer, was the victim. The hoaxer tricked tradesmen with 15 postcards bearing orders in Mr Alsop's name. Nearly all of them responded. Every butcher in Lea sent meat. Cars came to take Mr Alsop to Swindon market Thirty gallons of lubricating oil were dumped alongside three dozen bottles of beer, two gallons of whisky, tons of coal, and stacks of cheese.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23213, 10 June 1937, Page 2
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90A LARGE-SCALE HOAX Otago Daily Times, Issue 23213, 10 June 1937, Page 2
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