CONFIDENCE TRICK

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1932, Page 3

CONFIDENCE TRICK

AN INDIAN THE VICTIM,

FORTUNATELY REGAINS MONEY

LONDON, May 5. After introducing, a new element into an old trick, Frame Rudd, forty-eight, who formerly lived in Australia, and claims to have served) in the Boer War, , was sentenced-to six montns’ imprisonment on a charge? of having stolen £3OOO from Bris Mohair Lal at \tlie. .Great Eastern Hotel. . A confederate, named Schultz, met. Lai in the street, and formed an. ae- ■ quaintanceship. He presented to find; a wallet in a taxi-cab. The wallet; ostensibly contained £5 notes, and,bo-re : 'i the address of a man named, Houston, j at the Manchester Hotel. Both balled at the hotel, and found Houston, .otherwise Rudd, who offered £SO reward! to each o.f them. A refusal of tile reward led to a suggestion of Stock Exchange investments. Lai secured £3OOO from Lidia, and handed' it over. Later, lii® suspicions were aroused, and he demanded the return of his money. Ruddl and Schultz fled, with La] and the hotel manager in pursuit. Rudd was captured with the money, and was handed over to the police. Schultz has not, yet been... captured, >