AN INGENIOUS FRAUD
ASTUTE PARISIAN DEALER THE VICTIM WIN FOR WILY GREEKS (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9 a.m. PARIS, Monday. An ingenious fraud was perpetrated by a couple of Greeks. One, apparently an ignorant peasant, was accompanied by a Greek officer in uniform, and allowed it to be known that he had possession of two ancient statues weighing lOOlbs, and made of pure gold. He sought a purchaser in a wily Parisian, dealer. Estimating the gold alone to be worth 1,000,000 francs, he came to the Greeks' hotel and offered 250,000 j francs, stipulating that he should be, allowed to take a sample of the metal. The peasant agreed, and suggested l that a sample be taken from under] the arms of the statues, in order that) their artistic value should not be impaired. An analysis showed that the sample) was pure gold. The money was thereupon paid) over; but the dealer now finds that he has paid £2,000 for two pieces of gilded bronze, in which fragments oj pure gold were inserted under arms. The Greeks have disappeared.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 746, 20 August 1929, Page 9
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181AN INGENIOUS FRAUD Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 746, 20 August 1929, Page 9
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