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Show Spaniard is Again in Prison For a period of perhaps fifteen or twenty years people in this and other countries have been receiving letters from a person who is "imprisoned in Madrid, Spain," aud who has a large sum of money out of his reach. Ha wants help to get out of jail and promises his intended benefactor a liberal division o the money when he is released. His letter is going the rounds again, and last week Edw. Reynolds of this place received from him a communication, an exact cops of which is as follows: "Madrid, 19-4-21. Dear Sir: Being Be-ing imprisoned here by bankruptcy, I beseech you to help me to obtain a sum of 360.000 dollars I have in America being necessary to come here to raise the seizure my baggage paying to the Registrar of the Court the expenses of my trial and recover my portmanteau containing a Secret pocket where I have hidden two checks payable to bearer for that sum. As a reward I will give up to you the third part or 120,000 dollars. dol-lars. , I cannot receive your answer In the prison but you can send a cablegram to a person of my confidence confi-dence who will deliver it to me, addressed ad-dressed as follows: Vela. Llsta Te-legrafos Te-legrafos Madrid (Spain) (En ruta 74-Reynolds-) Awaiting your answer an-swer "to instruct you all my Secret, now I sign only, R. de S. First of all answer by cable not by letter." Mr. Reynolds has not yet cabled the prisoner, and when he does he will probably demand at least half the money Instead of a measly oner third. |