AN IMMRNSE FRAUD STOPPED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2283, 18 November 1889, Page 3

AN IMMRNSE FRAUD STOPPED.

« A leadlog Pawls •gont-dc-3bange > M. Paul Aubry. han jaet had % narrow eeoapofrom a ewinule wbloh would h*ve ooit Fronoh investors four mlllloQ trana About a month ago his manager booaras acquainted with a certain Eloi K«\raoar, who bas been staying m Paris darlnp the Exhibition end passing for a Syrian of ViSt wealth, Reotntly this Syrian annouuooo that his brother *«d hlmaslf had d'oideri to negotiate the oaU of a largo uambor of Egyptian bondu, io ordar to develoj their vast »:BUtes. He proposad thl» opeiatlon as the proliminsry to a mnoh more Important affair. The manager ■nspeoting that eometMug wui wrong ttked to have the aeoarltleß left with birr, and took them to M Ohaix, the printer who declared thorn to ba forbad. A: mid with this informatioQ, ha placed M. Mon Sin, the Polioe Oommitiary, on tha trail 0 ol Kamour. The police official, while m paranit of his victim, was thrown out of » oab and the shafts of the vehicle were broken. This slight delay enabled Kara our to make his escape from the apartmeni which he had hired for the pmposo of bringing off his coup. It bas bean ascertained that he only f-lopt there twice * week and that his carriage was hired bj the diy 'When he called on the A gen de Change the laßt time bo sent hit ooaohman home and told bim he had no farther neea of him thnt day- A search of Kamour'd apartment resulted m t'» ■elzare of a n^mbe* of photographs ol women and swindlers, bat no'hing of an) raloe. It >o stated that an Italian ia m league with him m tho at erupted swindle. wad the police oro after the pair, A description of Eamonr has been forwarded to all the police statior a on the frontier.