“YOU OLD FOOL."
BARONET SWINDLE. “GOLD BRICK” DODGE. The London Daily Mail discloses a fraud by means of which swindlers got £IO,OOO from a baronet engaged in business in the North of England. The baronet opened a letter from Canada addressed to bis recently deceased brother Thomas, in which the writer recounted the discovery of a remarkably rich goldmine, in which Thomas was entitled to a share on account of his partnership with the writer of the letter. The writer enjoined the utmost secrecy in order to enable the discoverers to peg out as many claims as possible.
The baronet, ns Thomas’s executor replied that he was visiting America. He met one of the swindlers in New York, and the latter produced samples of gold. The baronet parted with £10.0(10 for development, and received a letter on the following day: “You hotheaded old fool; yon are not the. first who lias been done by a goldstrike gag.”
The gang unsuccess fully tried to dupe other English business men. Their method is to address a letter lo a deceased person, explaining Hint a fortune is awaiting, in erI•eolation that relatives or executors will take the bait.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2747, 19 June 1924, Page 1
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195“YOU OLD FOOL." Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2747, 19 June 1924, Page 1
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