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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7765, 17 March 1905, Page 3

The latest victim to Hie confidence tricK (sftya a Stetoourpc despatch) is sn Austrian named Nicholas 1 Lopez. JIo had beetigum -digging ill New Zealand tor Ave years, Having accumulated £l5O, he started to rejoin his wife and agod parents in h.s native country. At Hftbnrt a fellow j,t(j»ipige passenger of good address Rcpompanied him ashore and introduced him to another man. who was represented to be a saloon passenger by the same vessel. When together in H'pbnrt they wprti joined l>y a m(in who had a ti-'.ck photo frame. ! ! s v foi|ipg to oik p the frame, the "saloon passengoi j' appeared to loose a " of £SOO, and to place himself in l awkward position by sigtiing a que for the amount with a wrong ne; The owner of the tricE frame fused to rctuin the cheque, and being appealed to, helped his ftuuintance out of his quaudth a loan of £l4l 10s in gold. cful saloon passlengvr prom- ; repay Lopez «t Adelaide. The UMyj have, as usual, dis-