Jan 12, 2023
“BOGUS METER READER,” Montreal Gazette. January 11, 1933. Page 11. --- Woman Robbed When She Turns Back on Man --- Mrs. Gaston Gravel reported to the police of the Masson street station that she had been robbed by a false M.L.H. & P. Cons, meter reader in her fish shop, 3183 Masson street, at, 11 o'clock yesterday morning. The woman said that a man had entered saying he was sent by the company to read the gas meter. As this was In the cellar she went down to turn on the light. Upon her return she found the bogus reader gone and three dollars missing from the cash drawer.