SULTAN’S GAR PAWNED

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1930, Page 2

SULTAN’S GAR PAWNED

EX-RULER of morocco. SWINDLER’S DARING FRAUD. Following the arrest in Paris .oft October 10 of two men wjio had beeii to prison for various frauds, it was revealed that the Jx-Sultan of Mortaco, Malay Hafid, who now resides at foOfoT s.Gus-Montmotency, near Pans, recently discovered that one of fos /notor-cate had been pawned. The arrested men are Alphan Tdhcn Hannouch, an Algerian, and Marcel Simon, who met in prison at Some eS time agb Hahnojich, learning that the Had a ;motor-car which he wished to sell, went to see it with Simon, whom he presented as hu secretary. He agreed to buy it for £lOO and, having signed a promissorynote foi this amount, drove off with it io the nearest branch of the municipal pawnshops and pawned it for a-fraction of its . Sultan lodged a complaint when he discovered that the name and address on the promissory note were false, and

the two mdn were quickly traced. Their arrest was no Oafey riidttet, frit flvri detectives were required} tri rnaStef Hihiioucli alone, who was hr med Avitli a loaded revolver. ... Hannouch made the acquaintance Of the police in Paris seven years ago, as the result of a fraud carried out in the Preffeetilre of Polite itself.-He had visited a well-known jeweller, arid, presenting himself aS a private secretary of -M. hlorain, the then Police Chief, a.Mted the jeweller to send an employee "‘vith him with a box of jewels, from Which the Prefect, would chqdfee a present to is daughter. . L . ~ . .» At the Prefecture, siyfiig that he Would himtelf present Prefect, he asked the jeweller to **t in -a whiting room, while he disappeared with the casket. .