SPANISH TREASURE FRAUD
TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE DUPED. ’ ;■ ~'V ’■ ' ByTetegraph—Press Assro—Copyright ' ‘ Paris, May 2. The extent of ; a “Spanish treasure” fraud is shown by the fact that despite publicity in : tRe - newspapers of the world, about :200 r people, list year called at the cloakroom of the Lyons Perrdche station for a . trunk, which it was fondly hoped contained £20,000 worth of French bank notes. 5 • Each victim had been to Spain and had paid £3OO for a cloakroom ticket as a Spanish “prisoner” was unable to go to Lyons.
The officials of the Lyons station are quite accustomed to the tragi-comlc scenes when the truth is revealed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1933, Page 7
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