The Electric Light Fraud.
■ (united pbess association.) OfiRiSTCHURCH, Wednesday. In reference to the Norman Electric Light Company (Philadelphia), advices which have been received here from New York by the last mail show that the Company consisted of one man named Emil Bassett, with many aliases, who advertised cheap watches and electric lamps m newspapers aft over the world. He has % jieen arrested, and when the riiail: left wfcs awaiting trial for -devising a scheme to defraud. The authorities swept down on Bnssett before he had time to reap the fruits of his scheme,' but since his incarceration so marjy letters have come for hini as to convince the police that if he had been allowed to go r.n for three or four montlis he vvould :have repeived fifty or sixty . thousand dollars.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1661, 18 March 1886, Page 4
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132The Electric Light Fraud. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1661, 18 March 1886, Page 4
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