THE NORMAN SWINDLE.
(By Telegraph.) CHBiBTCHtBon, March 16. In reference to tho "Norman Electric Light Co., Philadelphia," advices received here from New York by last mail show that the Company consisted of one man named Emil Bassett, with many aliases, who advertised cheap watches and electric lamps m the newspapers all over tho world. Ho has been arrested, and when the mail left was awiting his trial for devising a scheme to defraud. Tho authorities swept down on Bassett before he had had timo to reap the fruit of his scheme, but since his incarceration so many letters have come for him as to convince the police that if he had been allowed to go on for. two or three months he would have received fifty or sixty thousand dollars.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3576, 17 March 1886, Page 3
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130THE NORMAN SWINDLE. Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3576, 17 March 1886, Page 3
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