A NEW SWINDLING TRICK.
A very successful career nf swindling was brought to an abrupt termination by the arrest of a young man named Thomas Dynon, who is also known by a number of aliases, at Melbourne. The “ modus operandi ” adopted by the prisoner, which is very intjeninus, is novel in Victoria, though it has been successfully practised in England. A« far as can be ascertained, the course he invariably pursued during his predatory career was to forwa d letters to virions hotelkeepers in different parts of the Colony, purporting to be signed by Mes rs Gainsborough stock and station agents, of Melbourne and Sydney, announcing ihat. their agent would take up his quarters there in a few days’ time, and requesting that a
cheque which was enclosed should ho delivered to him on his arrival, In pursuance of his usual custom, Messrs Gainsborough’s representative always regulated his movemontslso as to reach his destination after bank hours, and by means of a gentlemanly exterior and plausible address he invariably succeeded in inducing his confiding host to oblige him by cashing the cheque which had been sent in advance of him by his pseudo-employers.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1278, 19 February 1883, Page 2
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193A NEW SWINDLING TRICK. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1278, 19 February 1883, Page 2
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