The sun., 1891-12-07
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Scheme and Another Cheats mn Esupre-s.
While American swindlers seem unable to find
any scheme more attractive than the time-worn
green goods and bunco lottery games. their
colleagues in tho Old World let hardly week
pass without introducing some subtle fraud or
practising an old one on such high scale as
to make It seem new.
On Nov 16 very elegant young man. who
spoke German with an English accent, called
at the Offices OF the Bohemian Union Bank in
Prague showed q letter from the American
Consul. and requested that 10000 marks in
LOCO mark bills be delivered at the Amer
lean Consulate at 3 o'clock In the afternoon.
when the proper securities would be given to
the bearer He then went to the Tivnostenska
Banka and left similar order for f1.950 and
1000 francs In large bills.
At o'clock two bank messengers arrived at
the American Consulate and found the young
man writing at table in the reception room.
He bade them be seated. took the pound. mark.
and franc notes, and informed the bearers that
they must wait few minutes for the securities
until the Consul returned from luncheon.
Then he stepped into the next room.
The messengers waited an hour and all re-
mained still. Then one knocked at the door
through which the young man had disap.
open % the door. & II was looked. He went to the
deer openins into the corridor i too WAS
thing was sN wrong and shouted With might. and
door Was soscsa and they were
man Nth han English sn.s .s.
forged. The sign on the. door Of the. American
CSnsuats "a reads ; usually S the Mat re fhe
Sonne man. 1nna to 0 suit his P plans however. had
pasted the figure 3 over the figure 1. He had
entered the So1suiets With skeleton d ksy sg-s an
had sone ns and T thanks to tReir pSnctiliousness
as to working after office hours. had experi-
Tss R%prese Austria was made
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presented his card. hearing evidences that hs
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to the satisfaction Of the Empress. proceeded
tie ndins o. a' the stseueete sRs SAID IL L
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Rretensione and is especially interested in OLD
On having the statuette. The price asked BY
the Armenian woman was $2.50O. The En-
press had this sum In gold fetched from the
ttle lis Hvs statuet.s i back to the Mirs%are
called on her In the afternoon and was asked
It to be spurious: and M several expsrts % whom he
bnt fsst an imitation and its market value
a swindIe Of less intrinsic novelty than
either Of those already described: b9t I remark ark
the sn bs S es
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at Bernau. owned BY Prince William Of Baden, |
and long q Mecca for tourists Of architectural
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and then took him to the gallery, which is
ornamented with some little wooden e angel g
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- artist Of worldwide reputation. Of theft.
one weeks imprisonment.