£2,000 COUP.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4699, 16 May 1924, Page 2

£2,000 COUP.

TRICKSTERS IN LONDON. A NEW ZEALANDER DUPED. A gang of tricksters, lelieved to have arrived in London for the pur-po-e of victimising visitors to the Wembley Exhibition, brought off then’ first coup on April 1, when they robbed a New- Zealander of £2OOO. The victim made the acquaintance of a man in a steamship coming to London, and in a few days several members of the gang were introduced to the New Zealander, who was how fortunes were rapidly being math by gambling in francs. The men said that with the aid of a stockbroker in London, a friend in France, and wireless communications they were able to know at all times the state of thp market. They worked their way into the confidence of the New Zealander, who gave small sums of money to theiii and received good returns for his outlay. Then it was suggested ' that' tie should share in the prospects of making a lot of money by investing £2OOO. He handed the money over to the chief spokesman of the partv. and the gang made various excuses for leaving the room. At last the New Zea- < lander found himself alone, and then j he learned that he had been