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frenchman compelled to BUY VILLA AN AMAZING STORY and X”.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Saturday. The Nice correspondent of the British United Press Association says a lawyer named Martelly, of Antibes, France, told the police an amazing story of how he was forced to purchase a villa owned by a silk merchant, Jules Jacques. Jacques received him with charming affability. They went into a house, whereupon Jacques produced a revolver and said: “You are going to huy this house for 130,000 francs.” He forced Martelly to sign a cheque, sud locked him in a cupboard while Jacques cashed the •iieque at a bank, and then disappeared.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 673, 27 May 1929, Page 9
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108AT REVOLVER POINT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 673, 27 May 1929, Page 9
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