BOGUS LIEUTENANT'S SWINDLE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81904, 17 December 1906, Page 4

BOGUS LIEUTENANT'S SWINDLE.

REALISES ClMjlOO OX \ MYTHICAL fortune. New York. November 2. Unit" (lie people of Montreal are laughing n( tin- oilier hail' wli.i have been i-I'vcrly victimised l,y a bogus lieutenant in the (Icrnnin Annv namcit Curl Ocmer. Criv.cr appcnreil S nil.|i.ii!v in Minitreal anil announce.! Unit ~li.- 1e.,1 inherited .Uiiu.OuO ii;i (hi' (lr;itil of his father. He ai-rnngcd with a Monircal bank to tran.-fir 111: f.,r(um< from Ccrmam' anil reinvest it in Citluulian securities. Creii.er was immediately besieged liy tradespeople, estate agents, motor car agents, picture dealers, and horse breeder-, i. • i importuned for orders. They ( . ,i orders to the extent of £00,00". „ Montreal society the "lieutenant'' with open anno, and tin: announcement of his engagement to the daughter of a wealthy resident ((.[used great envy in a number of families. Cremer even secured cash advances from a number of merchants to whom lie explained that the transfer of his inheritance was temporarily delayed. Suddenly the bubble burnt. Cremer went to the police station yesterday, mid naively said: "You had better lock me up, because I am crazy." The police complied with his jro(liiest, and a few hours later Cromer's apartments were besieged with creditors frantically endeavoring to recover their property. The creditors are so fur too cluig- | riued to make a formal complaint.