AN AUSTRALIAN SWINDLER.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12409, 26 November 1908, Page 3

AN AUSTRALIAN SWINDLER.

— -«• — . PITTSBURG AIAUNATES DUI'EI> [Uniteh Pkess Assoctation.] London, Nov. 24The "Mail's" New York correspondent, snya that one Montefioro Myers, a fashionably dtessed Jew from Australia, giving Locdou as his place of residence, has been arrested at Pittsburg on a charge of grand larceny. It is alleged that te protended to represent the Kothsobilds, and that he was intending . to invest £40,000,000. -He was introduced in the best circles. He is charged with stealing lumber hoods, and be also failed to pay tbe deposit on an oil option. He describes the charges as based on perjury. ; » Myera was for two mont'-s anhonoured gueat of Pittsburg magnates, and was. feted at civic banquejjs. Many familiar letters and portraits^from princea and sminent women were found in his possession.