CONFIDENCE TRICK.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1903, 12 October 1906, Page 3

CONFIDENCE TRICK.

THE MAN FROM GISBORNE

PRESS ASSOCIATION Dunedin last night. , Threo mm, well diosscd, strangers to Dunedin, were arrested to day c-n a cuargo 1 of obtaining THO from an old man named Jjgtph Dickerson, by moans of tho conDdocco trick. They gave the names cf Wm. Henry Mi cb 11, William MePnerBOi) cud Patrick Obfcrkuc’i. They bad on them about illOO when arrested. Dicker- „ , r . mne to Sewn on Satotfiay. On Mond.v/ ha noi tbo moo cat tho A-cade, who fi-.t-u-r-d into conv:r?r.tion with him. She asrft-igor claiming to b. Ja busia ■ Dickers>n vißDtrd' work, and ms stronger | . , 'i'i h . bad a friend i cm G.eborr.e who wait'd a vv.B. They went to the Gridiron Hotei hut tbo man £ ora GLborne .113 not wanS anyone. Tac parties isd o dri'-k. A Shtsd man entered. He i was vary V’cr.'tby, having come from j n ; .v!on. Tho rich ram c.rminsnced w g-r-

...V; Vo rut ts tick i.i wire's five pieces of rv’fi'r were used. O-'he ti iog was nppa- - ‘pj'jl 8 -, P ?u??'o thus Dic.toisrn we. < it - docitl to >. n;j « r ;e is tbs game. Beta o doing so. bowecor, be d.-p.w ilo6 r.e baa in me Savin (is Back, to kieg wi h £4 m him', £l7O, The f-liß tUt d went to (truth >r Jjotrl, &>d it W 53 DCS lore before Dicker son’s £l7O was in tbs hands of the man from CoyloD, who then left. One 1 of the other aUacgera Btayod in the reatausaat with Diokorsan, and, it

was arranged Dickerson should go to Gisborno. Ho wan given a atourago tickob from LyttcHon to Wellington, and a railway ticket to Lyttelton, tho two mon seeing him oil by train, but tbo old man had become suspicious, and left the train at Port Chalmers, 110 returned to Dunedin and informed tho police. The dotoctivos at once got to work, and with tho aid of Dickerson, tho throe men wore arrested to-day and will bo charged at the Police Court to-morrow.