A JEWELLER DUPED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2190, 1 July 1914, Page 10

A JEWELLER DUPED.

TELEPHONE ORDERS.

THE LADY IN THE MOTOR CAR

(By Teleffraph.-Pras- , !- Aeso<sl*tionJl Christfihutoh, Juus 30, A young woman *fts awes-ted iliia afternoon, by Detectives Ward and Gibson op. ii char"© of perpetrating a> smart fraud yesterday, on Afessrs. W.Watson and Co., imvolfers, of Colembo Street. Mr. Watson, it- is aflcgccl., was at his main establishment when he was , called to the telejiheiie, mil], a feroal-B : voice said that she- was Sirs-. —- (me«> tioning the name of- a weH-kiiowrt Cliristchurcli. lady), a«d that ste wislied to mnke a present to lier iiiooe wiltf would -Pome to his bnureh shop in a few minutes. She added a romiest ihat Mr. Watson would see ti-iat- li*r niece got a nice watch. - yery shortly after a yoiutg tady' ar« rived at tho sliop in fl sniart inotor-caf, with a cllauffeur at tho wheel. SJie was smartly dressed, and the shop assistant felt' no qnafei.s in liandthp- over to her a- nice littli* grid wateli, ti-ckc-te-d at £7 10s., wliicli "xi.tititro !! woiiWpay for. Half, an hour later fte telcplioiio rang again, and once more did Mrs. ——■ give Mr. Watson anoth&f order. So delightcd, she said, was her Jiieeo \vii<li tlip watch, that her "titt-elc" , also iJosiMd to make her a pr&s&n±atk«. and therefore she (her nieefi) would came bac-Ic to tho shop and- select another arti'clft which her "uncle," Mr. •—-, would pay for, though tlto aeooftfii must not be sent in before tie lstt* of tlte montt, AKain did tho j'atinK arrive at tho branch shop, -aftrl tin-is Mine $fo& selected' a ring valued at £5 ifls., Jiffdaway in her motor-car She departed, again. Having an uneasy feeling; Mr. Watson this morning ranc , up tire- lady whose name had been given oft the telephone, and learnt that neither sho nor her husband had eve* sent any ftiSeteor anyone else to lit, Wateon's shop. The matter was promfitJ.y put- in the hands of the poliee, wi-iti t-liti te&xftt that tho above-mentioned arrest* was fected,