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Show o ' Nearly Caught by Old Swindle. An American In tbe Spanish town tf Valencia has very nearly fallen ft victim to the burled treaaure swindle at tbe hand of the proprietors of a ,.. fashionable boarding bouse, where he ' ' was a paying guest Tbelr story waft that a certain French banker had fled from France, after defrauding his clients cli-ents of 1800,000. He bad, however, quarreled with another banker and killed blm, thus being condemned to ., . imprisonment fo l'fe. The Amerlcaa , )' :L i received some spurious document re- -latlng to tbe place where the treasurer was hidden and eventually tbe swindlers swin-dlers stated that. In exchange for 9,000 pesetas, the supposed banker would disclose the whereabouts of the 'box containing $800,000. Several days later la-ter tbe swindlers were cleverly caught by tbe police, who sent them a telegram tele-gram signed by the American accepting accept-ing their offer, and at the same time making an appointment. |