KNOWS HIS STORIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 940, 5 April 1930, Page 27

KNOWS HIS STORIES

“Con” Man Victimises Women RUN TO EARTH While most Australian authors are complaining of the difficulty of obtaining a market for their stories, the Criminal Investigation Bureau is convinced that at least one author of romantic stories has been finding a ready market for his fiction. Although he has written very little, the detectives say, he has told many stories to women and has obtained hundreds of pounds. Detectives Royal and Wicks have been tracing the man’s career, and they have been amazed at the ease with which he obtained money. V oung and prepossessing, he selected middleaged women of means and, after cleverly making their acquaintance, he told them of his schemes for making money. According to himself, he excelled as a business man; everything he handled -was a success, f inally, he handled the money of victims, each of whom learned that success was not so assured. With one woman, from whom he obtained nearly £BOO, the trickster *’ent through the marriage ceremony. He had hardly said “I will,” complained the woman bitterly, before he commenced to borrow money on various pretexts. After the woman had lost everything she possessed, after she had sold her cottage and pawned her jewellery, he disappeared. The irate woman nnd the detective force searched fruitlessly for him. Recently Detectives Royal and were travelling in a tram, when a man sat opposite them. As they travelled along they studied his features, and after a few minutes of Hose scrutiny they questioned him. Eater they detained him as the suspected confidence man.

PIG-FEEDING HINTS

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