CONFIDENCE TRICK
< STOLEN MONEY THREE MEN CONVICTED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9.2 b a.mi LONDON, July 16. The Clerkenwell Police Court ordered Harry Wallis ; an Australian, Richard Wade, aged thirty-five, a New Zealander, and John Grant, an American, to pay £lO apiece, and £lO costs . for possessing £l3O, supposedly -stolen. Bank notes were found in their possession and are believed to be the proceeds of a confidence trick upon J• Lome Campbell, who left AVellington on March 23, on a steamer, 0 n which one, Harden, ntroduced him to Wade. The trio stayed at a London hotel, and met one, Anderson, who was supposed to represent the Turf Exchange, Campbell supplied £4OO .for' betting, which, it is alleged, accused distributed among, them. Campbell went to . Naples, hoping to’" meet Harden returning to New Zealand, but was disappointed and came back to England.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1932, Page 5
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