A NEW TRICK.
LoH^on shopkeepers are being' 'Vic-' tunised; m an aggravating manner. A light trap conveys three on four mpn in^o districts where they are not knonjayawil one of them ascertains tHe positron, ,fl thetill Ofccaah bax^by .teqnef ting"^^^ for a sovereign. Bhortly afterwardfi ;fcp vehicle is dri?en np, and one of thef cjs-.'' federates enters the shop and! f^ ? i^ but thy proprietor or shopman to ; ry<je!v(r an order from the driver. Thi? affor 'b an opportunity for appropriating 1h money. The transaction octsidejia ,then abr«ptlv broken off, and the <Jog-c»rt Diok Tarpins are away with their "plunder as rapidly a<* their Black Bess m traces can carry them. Th^s plan, as ingenious as it is dishonest, is proving so suewseful that the chi^f of the; police hws issued an official warning to whom It may ooncern to be on their guar^. , Jl "
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 89, 10 March 1884, Page 2
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145A NEW TRICK. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 89, 10 March 1884, Page 2
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