CONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS.
BRICKLAYER LOSES £3OO. AS jdi.iA.XU ij. - Q 4 on London, Sept. 20. Australians visiting Australia House, are warned against a confidence gang operting in the vicinity. Their victims include a prominent business man, and the latest dupe, P. Hoeck t a bricklayer, lost his life's savings, £3OO. He met a man who said he had inherited £60,000, of which a third was for the Pope, and a third, for the Australian poor. He offered a commission to Hoeck to distribute the money in Australia, and secured Hoeck’s savings as a guarantee of his bona tides. He then disappeared.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1921, Page 3
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100CONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS. Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1921, Page 3
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