NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
A professional card player targeted millionaires on board the Titanic to swindle them out of their money.
George Brereton had a list of all the first class passengers when he boarded the ship heading to New York, and even identified the wealthiest people by circling their names.
His copy of the first-class passenger list is going up for auction, and it is expected to sell for £60,000 this weekend at Henry Aldridge & Son Auctioneers of Devizes, Wiltshire.
The US citizen was recorded to have hidden in the first-class smoking room, where he lured rich passengers into playing high-stake card games with him under the alias George Brayton.