CONFIDENCE MAN.
CONVICTED AT WELLINGTON.
FORMERLY A POLICEMAN,
By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 10.
At the Supreme Court, to-day. William Patricg McDermott, formerly in the Police Force, both ia Australia and New Zealand, was found guilty on several charges of fraud, chiefly attempts, some successful, some unsuccessful, to obtain money from personls by means of forged letters, partaking of the character of what is known as the 4'confidence trick."
The charges were all similar, bat affecting different people. The prisoner would find out that two particular people were acquainted, and send a letter to one of them with a request for money to be sent; to a certain place, as if communication came from the recipient's friend. Then the confidence man would write to the person with whom the money was to be deposited, stating that he would call or send to see if anything had been left for him.
The prisoner was remanded for sentence until Saturday.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10041, 11 May 1910, Page 5
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158CONFIDENCE MAN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10041, 11 May 1910, Page 5
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