SAME OLD STORY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 121, 14 January 1932, Page 2

SAME OLD STORY

IMPUDENT EXPOSITION OF CONFIDENCE TRICK. ' £3500 IN ONE DAY. Sauntering into the smoking room of a London hotel, a well dressed youhg mari chose an expensxve cigar, ordered a drink, and settled down in front of the fire to meditate that.he had £1 be'tween him and starvation. Barely twentyTfour hburs later that young maxx walked out of the hotel witlx £8500 in cash xix his ppcket. This is how ,it happened (says the Sunday Express). ±Le had bepn sitting there a few minutes when His cigar went out. He begged a light from a visitor, a Canadian farmer3 who explained he had conxe over to invest his. life savings. Later that day the pair met by arrangement. Into the smoke room walked another man, "fortyish," He was aBout to sit cfown when he espied : the young man, and was up in an injstant with, "Well, old man, after all these years!" The trio wandered over Lo'ndon together, the story was told of a legacy which one of them had been left by ari uncle, "on condition that a portion of it is. spent on the deservirig poor in Cariada." The farmer, of course, was just the man fp distribute the money. It was. casually .suggested that he should show- he was a man of substance. Next day the ' Canadian produced £3500. The "fortyish" man placed it in a yellow envelope, went out of the room for a moment, and returned with the envelope. The two strangers asked the Canadian to hold his money while they both went away "to telephone." They strolled out — -with £3500 — leaving the Canadian farmer nursing a yellow envelope packed wih tissue paper.