SPLIT NOTE SWINDLE.
CHINAMAN DETECTS FRAUD f *nr. Dress A ssociatio.n . WELLINGTON, July 15. Split £1 notes are still being negotiated in the city Two Chinese Vuiterers are among the latest vicms of this form of fraud. Both acpfced the notes as genuine only to scorer too late that they had been ■er trusting. _ Another Chinaman was more formate, as he unfolded the note and e tec ted the fraud. The would-be windier thereupon threw down half & town on the counter in payment of iis purchase, snatched up the note and decamped.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17342, 15 July 1924, Page 1
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