A LARGE-SCALE HOAX
Beer, cheese, barbed wire, coal—a hoaxer deluged his victim with great quantities of them*at Lea, near Malm!?.^bury, Wilts, England, recently. Mr. Maurice Alsop. a farmer, was the victim. The hoaxer tricked tradesmen with fifteen postcards tearing orders in Mr. Alsop's name. Nearly all of them responded. Every butcher in Lea sent meat. Cars came to take Mr. Alsop to Swindon market. Thirty gallons of lubricating oil were dumped alongside three dozen bottles of beer, two gallons of whisky, .tones "I coal, and stacks of c!ieos<?.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 15
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88A LARGE-SCALE HOAX Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1937, Page 15
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