THE “COUNT’S CHAUFFEUR.”

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43113, 4 July 1907, Page 4

THE “COUNT’S CHAUFFEUR.”

A Curious story of an alleged ingenious fraud by telephone was told at Mortlake recently, when Frank Lehr, ia German, and Leo Caspary, a Boer, were charged with obtaining £8 by a forged seal of the Germany Embassy 'from the Young street Motor Garage Company, Barnes. From the evidence it appeared that the assistant at the garage, received a telephone message on Sunday night, purporting to come from the German Embassy, saying that Count Rhene’s motor car had met with an accident and that they might give the chauffeur every attention and supply him with everything necessary. The speaker added, T don’t know what the chaufferer may require. He may need money; do all you possibly can for 'him. '. , Two hours later, it was’ aleged, Lehr called and said his name was Davies, that he 'came from the Embassy, and that the count’s car had broken down 'at Hampton Court and required two tubes. The assistant said she had not the kind required, and gave Lehr £8 to get them elsewhere. He signed a-receipt at the foot of a eltter bearing the Embassy stamp. Detective Curry, of Scotland Yard, stated that Lehr had' accused Caspary of stamping paper with the aims of the Embassy, upon which he wrote to the garage introducing the ‘chaufIfeur.’ In Caspary*® desk at the office lof the African World, in Copthall I lAVenue, were found rubber type and I a die of the Embassy crest. The acI cufied were remanded.