CONFIDENCE TRICK.
i At the Auckland Police Court the I other day a man of early middle-age was charged with having worked a confidence trick on a woman from whom he had obtained £IOO. The allegation is that the accused, by large | talk and impressive manner, , the idea in the mind of Hannah Donnelly, who was his landlady at a boardinghouse, that lie was a man of substance, with a farm of considerable value in North Auckland, while he.did not neglect the sentimental side of their friendship. Eventually, according to the police story, come loans | from the lady, who possessed a fair amount of ready cash, the departure of the gentleman “to look after his stock this dry weather,,” suspicions occasioned by his continued absence, disillusion, ami a warrant.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 18 February 1920, Page 4
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129CONFIDENCE TRICK. Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 18 February 1920, Page 4
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