AGENTS ARRESTED.
BIG RACING SWINDLE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received May 3, 5.5 pm. Paris, May 2. At the request of the American Embassy detectives arrested John Prescott, of Melbourne, and Arthur Ernest Cox, a Londoner, commission agents, who left New York with a hundred thousand dollars. They were staying at the Crillon, the most expensive hotel in Paris. Only twenty thousand francs were found in their possession. The pharge is not disclosed. The men came to America in 1921 in company with Eric Skogstadt, a Norwegian bank president, on board the Aquitania, after a casual acquaintance picked up in a London bar. The three travelled to Troy, New York State, where a horse-racing betting swindle resulted in Skogstadt’s loss of a hundred thousand dollars. Cox and Prescott disappeared. Skogstadt appealed to the Norwegian Consul, who enlisted the services of th< New York police department, which traced the two men to Paris, where they were arrested. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1922, Page 5
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158AGENTS ARRESTED. Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1922, Page 5
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