THE NORMAN ELECTRIC LIGHT SWINDLE.
j>.Y TKLKfJRVI'ir. — I'JIF.^-; AS->O('tATIOX ] Chhimthirch, Tuesday. l\ refeioiico to tlin Norman Ejcctnc Light Company Philadelphia, advices received here from New York by last mail show tli.it tho company consisted of one man n uncd Kinil Ba^ett, with many aliases, who idvertised cheap watches an 1 electric lamps in the nowspapers all over the world. He h.is benn «u rested, and when the mail left w ,is awaiting trial for devising a scheme to defraud. The authorities swooped down on B.is-ett before he had time to reap the fruits of his scheme, but since his mc ircor.ition ho many letters have come to him as to con- \ nice the police that if he had b >«n allowed to go on for thiee or four m >nth-> he would have received fifty or sixty thousand dollars.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2136, 18 March 1886, Page 2
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139THE NORMAN ELECTRIC LIGHT SWINDLE. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2136, 18 March 1886, Page 2
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