Guerino Berdusco, Proprietor

A GOOD PLACE TO STAY
REASONABLE RATES

With Hot and Cold Running Water

FULLY LICENSED

Prince George

British Columbia

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NORTHERN COLD STORA

A complete service for hunters in Skinning, Chilling and Ageing,
Cutting and Freezing, Storing, Shipping, is provided.

MODERN BUTCHER SHOP and GROCERY

Northern Cold Storage
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.

4th Ave. and Brunswick

FROZEN FOOD LOCKERS

The only Cold Storage Locker Plant
within 250 miles of Prince George.

Phone 202-R-1

uses the victim’s own weaknesses to his
ultimate undoing. Quite often we hear of
a man, dressed in the clothing of a re-
spectable farmer arriving at, say a fur-
niture store. He looks around, and when
attended, asks to see a moderately-priced
breakfast suite. While being conducted
to that part of the store, he expresses
interest in a dining-room suite, or some
other article of value. Then, turning to
the attendant, he will inform him the
breakfast suite is a surprise for his wife,
but that he will bring her back later to
see the article. It’s just the thing they
have been looking for, but he won’t buy
it without her seeing it first.. He then
picks out a breakfast suite and gives the
necessary directions for shipment to an
address perhaps twenty or thirty miles
out of town. The suite costs perhaps $80
or $90, and the farmer tells the salesman
that it will have to be sent C.O.D., as he
hasn't sufficient funds with him. He adds,
however, that if they will accept his
cheque, he will pay for it at once. This
is usually consented to, and as the ‘farmer’
is writing it out, he stops, and says that
he is a little short of cash as he spent a
little more in town than he intended.
Would it be all right to make it out for
$20 or $30 more than the amount of the
bill? Very frequently this is agreed to
by the merchant who has made a good
sale, and has the prospect of making
another and a better one. Pocketing the
cash, the ‘farmer’ departs and the mer-
chant is ‘out’ his money plus the expense

SEVENTEENTH EDITION

and inconvenience of sending his mer-
chandise to a non-existent address.

“We very recently had several com-
plaints concerning an operator who tray-
elled about the country and victimized
hardware stores principally. Dressed as
a trucker, he would call at a hardware
store and present a cheque purporting to
have been issued by a trucking concern.
He told the attendant that his boss had
sent him to get some paint and other
supplies. The cheque was never made out
for a very large amount, usually around
$45. Having selected the paint, he paid
for it with the cheque and took the bal-
ance in cash. When news of this man’s
operations became known to the police, a
warning was sent out by radio. In one
of the towns calculated to be on the trick-
ster’s itinerary, the N.C.O. in charge tele-
phoned all the hardware stores to be on
the lookout for him. A short time later,
one of the stores called the police office
and advised that looking through their
cash a cheque had been found which re-
sembled the modus operandi of this par-
ticular operator. The girl clerk who had
accepted the cheque earlier in the day
was interviewed, and a search at once
instituted for the culprit. He was located
at a local hotel just as he was about to
leave town. Among his effects there was
a writing tablet with the blotting paper
still in the cover. This, when read with
a mirror, gave some very interesting in-
formation. The man was convicted and
will not victimize merchants for quite a

long time. Strangely enough, when he
saw he could not deceive the officers who
were holding him, he abandoned his atti-
tude of injured innocence and admitted
all the offences he had committed. A
quick check was made, and it was found
that several offences attributed to him
were not covered by his admissions.
These he steadfastly denied, so his pic-
ture was circulated, but the victims failed
to identify him. It then became apparent
that there were two men, with the same
surname, of similar description, operating
in the same general area at one and the
same time. The identity of the second
man has now been verified, and he is
being sought.

“Women, though not as frequently as

SAM STEVENS
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PLUMBING and HEATING

Authorized Agents for

Canadian Fairbanks-Morse

Electrical Appliances
Box 302 Phone 94-L-2

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PRINCE GEORGE - B.C.

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