CONFIDENCE MEN S CCUP

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 312, 18 December 1936, Page 8

CONFIDENCE MEN S CCUP

CUP VISITOR LOSES H?? - HARE IN “BETTING SYNDICATE MELBOURNE, Nov. 2. Confidence men used a new stu» o defraud a visitor from Perth i .770 on Saturday. They made hn. relieve he had won £15,000 by back ng horses, and then induced him U land them £7 7 0 as proof o, his nn mcial resources. r “hen they du ipueared. The visitor, whose name, was nt disclosed by the police to-day, ha been on holiday in Sydney, an. .ravelled by sea to Melbourne, whet le arrived on Wednesday. Will me of two men he met on board m vent for a walk to the Shrine 01 vednesday afternoon, and “touna wallet containing £2O.

“A BETTING SYNDICATE.” They took the wallet to ar addrep t contained, and the owner as a re vard to the finders for their hon isty, said he would allow them t ‘come in” on a betting coup he hm Banned. He said he was repre senting a New Zealand betting syn licate. By Saturday this bettin; ■ystem had won many thousands o rounds, of which the Perth man > ■hare was £15,000. So tar he nac lot been asked to supply any mone.' or betting, which was done on ere lit, but before he could collect hii hare he was told he had to prove hat, had the system failed, he coulc iave paid his share of the losses this he did by going with his “part lers” to his Melbourne bank. n< drew out £770, which he gave U them, so that the money would bi in hand when the auditors were deal ing with the accounts of the syndl :ate. A cheque was then made ou in the victim’s favour for the tota imount owing to him. It was plac ad in a registered letter and postet o Perth, so that he could get tin noney when he rtturned home. Ht vas given the receipt for the regist ■red letter. With the victims noney in thejr pockets, the tricksters ook their dupe to Spencer Street station and induced him to buy a icket for his return to Perth. Then they accompanied him to a picture heatre in the city, and left him here. An internr'e search is now >eing made for ; the men, good descriptions of whom have been obol- d