CONFIDENCE TRICK.
WITH A STOCK-IN-TRADE OP THREEPENNY-BITS. By Tclom'apli—Prop? Association—OopyrijM Melbourne, September 30. A clever ruse lias been worked on ft eitv tailoring firm. A man ordered £G0 worth of clothes, which were not delivered. Later he visited tho shop, and stated that ho had just completed a deal. He asked tho tailor if he would take payment from the firm with whom ho had done business. The tailor agreed, and with tho customer visited a catering establishment. The ' latter asked the caterer to give sixty out of bis one hundred to the tailor. Tho pair then returned to tho tailor's sbop, where tho customer received the clothes and departed. Subsequently tho caterer, instead of sixty sovereigns, delivered sixty threepenny pieces to the tailor.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1869, 1 October 1913, Page 7
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124CONFIDENCE TRICK. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1869, 1 October 1913, Page 7
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