"FREE PORTRAITS."

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11480, 13 January 1903, Page 6

"FREE PORTRAITS."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STRESS. ■ Sir, —Some eighteen months ago I sent ' a photo to Mons. A. Tanquerey. Shortly ! afterwards you exposed the fraud. When i applied to by him, everything fitted with. > your account. I therefore sent him the clipping, with a suggestion that now was . his chance to prove he was not a common swindler. The enclosed is the second communication I have had since. Thanking you • for exposing it (I have einoe prevented three others being had), I send this to you to poet yon in the latest more.—Yours, ets., ONE WHO INVESTIGATED. Chrisstchurch, January 9th. [Our correspondent encloses a letter received from M. Tanquewy, who reminds him that the "Sootete Artistique" are still without instructions concerning his life-sized crayon portrait. "If you could only be here in our studio," writes M"and see the magnificent specimen we have turned out for you, you would not hesitate a minute in remitting Uβ the ten shillings we have already asked you to pay for the necessary J boxing, packing, and ■carriage expenditure from Paris to your home." He proceeds to say that if tho ten shillings ia forwarded, lie will not only deliver the portrait, but he will also make our correspondent a present of a hand camera (picture enclosed), and deliver it free of aH char|s«s. He encloses "a few unsolicited testimonials" and an order-form.]