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Show WORKED THE FOREIGNERS. j Swindler Who Palmed Himself Off as the British Consul Gets Checks Cashed in Europe. New York. Jan. 1 By means of a clever and carefully prearranged scheme a man calling himself S. W. Spencer, representing hlmsclr 10 be the British ' Consul, at Washington, an office that does not exist, is declared by a banking and exporting house to have been traveling. trav-eling. through Europe since last October, defrauding banking-houses with spurious spuri-ous drafts and forged checks drawn on prominent bankers and business men In New York. The scheme he Is alleged lo have op- crated Involved his presence here a few months ago. He Is said to have visited sporting houses, and representing himself him-self as British Vice-Consul at Washington, Washing-ton, secured drafts for large sums on foreign correspondents for shipments of watches from New- Jersey makers, for whom he pretended to hold power of attorney. at-torney. The shipments never reached Europe, but Spencer did. lie took along the drafts upon the proceeds of which. It Is alleged, he h enabled to live without with-out labor for the time belnt?. He Is now supposed to bo lh Egypt. |