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Issue Details: First known date: 1885... 1885 Outwitted
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Account of a clever confidence trick. A Frenchman arrests an absconding English cashier at Calais, they come to an understanding apparently agreed to by the company to allow the cashier to return part of the money in francs and to return the rest. Only after remitting the bills to London does the Frenchman learn it is a hoax to defraud him of the 60,000 francs. Well crafted. (PB)

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  • From A Cruise Under Six Flags

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 20 no. 237 February 1885 Z1020515 1885 periodical issue 1885 pg. 335-336
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    France,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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