AN INGENIOUS FRAUD
DEALER TAKEN IN
(United Press Association.—By Electrii Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this dnv at 9. a.m.> - PARIS, August 19.
An ingenious fraud was perpetrated by a couple of Greeks, one apparently an -ignorant peasant who was accompanied by a Greek officer in uniform. He tallowed it to be known that be was in possession of two ancient statues, ■vyeighing one hundred pounds, of pure gold. He sought a purchaser in a wily Parisian dealer who estimated the gold alone was worth a million francs.
He came to the Hotel offering 250,000 francs, stipulating he should be allowed to take a- sample of the metal. The peasant agreed, and suggested that the sample be taken from under the arms of the statues in order that their artistic value should not be impaired. The analysis showed pure gold, and the money was thereon paid over, hut the dealer finds that he lias paid £2,000 for two pieces of gilded bronze, in which fragments of pure gold were inserted under the arms. The Greeks have disappeared.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1929, Page 6
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174AN INGENIOUS FRAUD Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1929, Page 6
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