CONFIDENCE TRICK
WELLINGTON MAN ROBBED OF £750. London, July 19. A Wellington resident,' Mr. M. Dixon, who is .staying at a London hotel, was tricked out of -£750 by confidence men with a story that they had a fortune to dispense among Charities. “I would like to see the confidence man who can take me down,” was what. Mr. Dixon told the confidence man who relieved him of £750. Mr. -Dixon informed the Australian Press Agency that he had considered himself' proof against any confidence man. He had travelled for four months through various parts of Europe before (reaching London, but bad only been in London three days before lie fell to the “old inheritance” trick. “I do not know what my friends in New Zealand and Australia will think of me being such a fool, but I will guarantee that nine out of any ten people I know would have fallen also. All. through I was guarded and suspicious, but at the last moment the whole thing seemed so real that I handed over the money. My advice to New Zealanders and Australians coming to London; is don’t hand over any money to anyone.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3974, 23 July 1929, Page 3
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195CONFIDENCE TRICK Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3974, 23 July 1929, Page 3
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