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Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1933, Page 2

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CONFIDENCE trick again

TWO AUSTRALIANS VICTIMISED

LONDON, July 1

Henry Lennon, forty-six, and Thomas George Martin, thirty-five, were sentenced to-day respectively to fourteen and twenty months’ hard labour f°r stealing £IOO and a diamond ring from an Australian and his wife by .a confidence trick. !

While Ernest Archibald Wright and .his w'ife, who were on /a holiday m London, were in a- West End store, they were accosted by Lennon, posing as an Australian .carttie-buyer.

The trio later s aw Martin drop his walking-stick in Oxford Street, which was picked up by Air Wright and returned to Martin, who thereupon said he was looking for an honest man to distribute] £60,000 of a. legacy of £600,000.

■Martin invited Wright to take the job, requiring, however, that he should hind over £IOO and his wife’s diamond ring as proof of good faith before distributing’ the “£60,000. ’ It was stated in Court that Lennon end 'Martin had been convicted in .Sydney and elsewhere. Martin’s paraphernalia included a faked newspaper announcement which, the Magistrate gaid. might have deceived lanyone.