A man in Biddeford, Maine, forwarded five dollars to the pretended dealers in counterfeit money in New York, requesting them to send him a sample of their " wares,'' as he wished to make a large -purchase if the "thing would go/' In answer he.received a letter from the firm covering'"a ten dollar bill, which bill-lie took to a bank, where it was exchanged for smaller bills by the cashier without any'hesitation. The man called the cashier's attention to the bill, and enquired if "it was a good one." The cashier responded that it war? a genuine bill. This so tickled the man that he immediately forwarded fifty dollars to the New York dealers for a supply. He lias been waiting to get it, and hys now fome to the conclusion that he is fortygve dollars out of pocket.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 958, 4 March 1871, Page 2
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