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Show An English Dry Goods Nlim-p. London, 19. A singular variety of fraud in commercial life has boon disclosed dis-closed here by tho failure of August Ahlborn, a London dry goods dealer, who kept two sets of bcoks, one genuine genu-ine and one tictitous. In the latter net appear the book debts due him to the amount of $1,340,000, not one of which is real. They represent goods which never existed at all, or were not sold to the persons to whom they are charged. They seem to have been parted with In tho most questionable way to most Questionable character and then entered in the books to persons per-sons of credit and position in the highest classes of society, who never bought them. On the strength of these debts and of the business they were shipped to represent, it is con jectured that Ahlborn built up his credit and bought largely, and none of the wholesale people with whom he dealt bad any suspicion of the fraud. |