YOUTHFUL TRICKSTER

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1930, Page 6

YOUTHFUL TRICKSTER

CONFIDENCE SCHEME FAILS. (By Telegrapu—Per Press Association.) • • K . ' /;■ ..•■••• •}•<.’ . : r ; , ... HAW Ell A, Seplj,„l.. ; A hoy-,. 15 .years of .age,,. A v M9;:-^' vas . subsequently, arrested his. knowledge of local conditions ,to> work a confidence trick at Hawera op £iSaturday. Aware that the. Hawern y Station Booking Office <,‘lerks v fr.eq | i!ieutly obtained ..small change from a confectioner’s shop, opposite, the.station, the boy obtained £3 from , the. woman shopkeeper, on the pretext,his ‘/Uncle” in the booking office wanted in(sixpences and threepences. The request was not unusual.. In 'exchange for the silver| the 'boy said that |jis/‘‘Uncle” would bring the money to Gig shop, later, as lie was busy at the moment.; Shortly after receiving tlie 'money, the 1 boy returned with Is 6d, stating iffiab his “uncle” was returning: 1 it t! as‘it was; in excess of the correct change. The shopkeeper; ‘enquired at: the booking office and found that no. boy-had ibeeri sent. - -.t.; From the shopkeeper’s! cfescriptiim, a., railway .'clerk "• recognised tlflioihoy.’ 'as. having bought' a ticket from NfewePly-1 month; paying in sixpences ah'tLthreefJences, 'with- the. result I .thahi&hemibOy wa.s arrested at Stratford.*ii?uoh ' j With the exception of the. Anil ouiit paid for the ticket, the Is 6d retarned to the,shoo nnd.9d : ■the whoje of thp money, was, ’in his; .possession..