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Show I SENSJTI01 STORY Hi Familiar Confidence Game Is H: Played in Political Plot to Gain J Control of Ukraine Legation HL VIENNA, Jan. 15.--A Vienna money broker .was robbed of 2,000,000 rubles H the other day in a political, plot to Ob- Hi lain control of the Ukrainian legation here. The story as worked out by the police is as .good as a play, j The scheme was the familiar eonfi- M- 1 dencc game of inducing the broker to violate the law and of seizure of the money by criminals disguised as HJ gendarmes. Hj A supposed Ukrainian gcnoral re- cently arrived in Vienna and engaged I with a money broker to buy up to j ' 2,000,000 rubles It is illegal in Aus-Hr1 Aus-Hr1 tria to deal in foreign money or to I have it in private possession, "and all foreign exchange is done through auth-orlzed auth-orlzed banks.- The broker agreed to I have the amount, in hand on a certain M, day. He lived and conducted his bus- iness in a hotel. ' Confidence Game Played a On the appointed afternoon, but a little ahead of time, a man in the uni-1 uni-1 form of a Ukrainian colonel called on t j the broker and saluting said he had come for General' X's money. They sat down to a table, to check the mon-1 mon-1 j oy, when the door was opened and two I gendarmes walked in and placed both under arrest on the charge of possess-j possess-j ing and dealing in foreign money. . The broker begged and protested and finally was told to appear in court on the following day, his record being I taken with the greatest care and par-ticulars. par-ticulars. But the colonel's protests u 1 were unavailing. He stormed and in-voked in-voked his nationality in vain. The' l j two policemen gathered up the money ' counted it, and. giving a receipt, told the broker to appear promptly before I the authorities. j Thon, taking the colonel,- they left, An hour later the broker woke up to, the fact that the colonel and the twoi gendarmes., were fakers and he had been robbed of ome 2,000,000 rubles. H: Vienna Police Get Busy H: The Vienna police are efficient in ij this kind of thing, in a day or two had i gathered in two of the swindlers, but ( not the one with the money. Working I on the cast? they finally ascertained thftt the money was "to be used fori H'l , political endB. The plan, according to i the police reports, was a plot to seixe the Ukrainian legation here by an op-j poBing political faction, get possession of the records and seals and defv the -existing government, a plot character-1 i istic of the present unsettled state of l.l affairs in eastern Europe. The lega- . tion, howeyer, had wind of it and was prepared for whatever might happen. , The pollcetflay this is the second plot to the same end frustrated. |