SCOTSMEN DUPED

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1932, Page 6

SCOTSMEN DUPED

TELEGRAM CONFIDENCE TRICK

(United Press Association. —By Electrn Telegraph.—Copyright.)

LONDON, March 26

Several “hard-headed” Scottish business men have been the victims of the telegram confidence trick, and a typical instance was related this week. A prominent Glasgow man was iu London for a few sence bis, wife received a telegram asking her to telegraph him £2O immediately. Although the address given wins not his hotel, and his need of money after such a short absence surprising, she complied with tho request, thinking that her husband required the, money to clinch an unexpected deal. On hi,s return to Glasgow the husband was astounded to learn about the telegram, which, of course, he did not send. Mostly the victims of the trick have kept quiet about their experience, but one victim who was defrauded of £lO stated, 1 that wlmt mystified him was how the trickster learns the identity, and particularly the private address, of his intended victim. “I do not usually confide in strangers,” he said, “and tliat aspect of the matter had me completely at a loss.”