WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 33, 30 May 1914, Page 5

WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN

A MALTESE TRICKED.

“Please pay the bearer £lO when the sun goes down,” was the ertraordinary inscription on a bogus note that an unsuspecting Maltese, Joseph March!, was induced to cash by a confidence man in Sydney last week, March! made the acquaintance of the stranger on board the Omrah, by which vessel he had taken out a passage to his home in the Mediterranean. The usual walk round the city resulted, after an hour or so’s conversation, until finally the stranger, after stating that he wished to go to the Royal Exchange to pay, .freight on a quantity of ore he had received from his mine in Queensland, rushed out from the building and exclaimed, excitedly, that the banks were closed, and he wanted change of a £lO note. March! handed ever the money, and received the not© in exchange. He waited for over an hour for his “friend,” but he never returned, and it was not until he tendered the note as payment for a dinner at a restaurant that he found he had been tricked.