STAGGER AWAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 22 November 1899, Page 1

STAGGER AWAY

under his daily load-of letters, cash the enclosures, and pile up. a banking' "account. ; None on the brave men who replied I<> his- advertisement knew, it is obvious, thnt Mr Gordon is a little fat man with a foreign cast of features and a foreign f.ccent, .who has no more connection with the British Government than the man in the moon, and no authority to enrol new regiments of kited Highlanders. . No one outside Caniaby-sti-eet knew that '•No. 23 is not a War Office depot, but a little sweetstuff v shpp^_fsith a placard ;•»-■ its Jitfcler wiqdbw" 'Baying "Letters receired ttefe." Buf-ffortunately the daily Mail heard of. the extraordinary swindle which this little fat foreigner .with the honoured alias, was carrying; on. A representative of ■ the Daily. Mail) yesterday eh'ightened the keeper of the sweetstuff shop as to the' nature of Mr Gordon's business; and'learnt that ,Mv . Gordon's conduct liad already raised some suspicion. But Mr Shepherd ."a'dded-that he didn't know, whit the letters were- about,- or that, they contained money. He sent his boy to see where Mr Gordon went to the night before, "but the wily foreigner disappeared- at the top of Wellsstreet, W. - •■■•>. . . How much Mr Gordon has made by his war game if is difficult to telD He may have been- receiving- letters in a dozen names at a 3ozen different addresses in London. But if each of the letters received ..by him on- Tuesday last contained..sf., then Mr 'Gordon, netted' no less than' £llo in the day* "fids-.Tortune "^riay" "perhaps by this time be reckoned in thousands. vlt is possible that.M r Gordon may now consider that he has made enough money for the " present, and that he may leave London for a while with advantage to him self. But it is to be hoped" that Scotland '.Yard will have a word to say.