THE CONFIDENCE TRICK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 97, 1 May 1913, Page 3

THE CONFIDENCE TRICK.

A GERMAN ROBBED. A German named Eugene Berger was .the vistim of a confidence trick of more than ordinary cunning in Sydney the other Saturday evening. Berger, who was to have sailed by the Warrimoo for New Zealand, was accosted by a man on board the vessel some hours before she was timed to sail, and, being a stranger in a strange land, with a fair grip of the English language, he was delighted by the thought of so excellent a companionship as his friend showed proa is of affording him. The confidence man suggested a. walk around the city, and on the way told the German that ho was a big manufacturer, and that bo owned many imprtant buildings in and around Sydney; in fact, lie pointed proudly to Victoria markets and told his unsuspecting victim that lie owned them. A second man appeared on the scene, and, after talking for a moment or two, lie was introduced to Berger as the manufacturer’s Wellington manager. The German was greatly impressed, so much so that ho willingly handed over £lO in two Bank of England notes on the promise of being “fixed up” with a job when bo arrived in New Zealand. The money in hand, the two commercial “gentlemen” quietly slipped away, and Berger was left to report bis case to the police. Ho was able to give a fair description of tho two men, and tho police have every hope of making an arrest.