CONFIDENCE MAN
\ GETS THREE YEARS’.
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AUCKLAND, May lA4' : j Jack Walker. 43, a salesman, 'jjjwas sentenced to.day to three ycarsMb&M',' .labour for conspiring to defraud farmers. ' Justice Smith, before sefitenci-ng-hjin. read a cablegram from the ; IZAw-I ' jouver police describing the ’accosecr as «a card sharper and coi n mateheYhlt was quite clear he was a practised confidence -man. The sum involved in the conspiracy wag £SBO, of which .accused alleged he got only '£lß2. Accused hri’d ’’told a detective that he thought NeV Zealand a groat little country, and' r “fHei'e was a lot of money to be made j‘ n Rotorua by -a couple of good men, “but I would want a little protection. We-wattld- -give-ryou—fiver-pervreeiit.-'.-and - guarantee we would only take on ;-yisitpr. s/.; gdcl.:;;“fieiMMmich; ?New '.£ea.q ifggtol - pjg.-' : -"fi ST<3gclWft teii you 'get; bfit of 1 gaol it will be. as well for you- to leave the country.’’ „ .... :V \ £ . d
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1933, Page 6
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156CONFIDENCE MAN Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1933, Page 6
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