THE CONFIDENCE TRICK AGAIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4716, 11 May 1894, Page 3

THE CONFIDENCE TRICK AGAIN.

A> very Mr specimen of the conhS i donee trick was played in Wellington '' on Wednesday last. A young man ' who was on the wharf wailing to leave ■ for the South was aoooated by a'fair < spoken stranger,'whohid him the time of day Hnd asked him where he was bound for, On learning that be was going to Dunedin the stranger became decidedly communicative, informed the man he had a brother living there who was a conlectioner in a large way of business, and that he himself had been in Wrogton looking out for a nusiiio3s with ft view to purchasing, Finally ho suggested ibaMiis newly made friend should accompany him to the Occidental Hotel, whore be had, ho said, been stopping, and whence lib wished to remove his things to the steamer, On arriving there the strand ger asked his friend if he had change for a £2O note,' as he wished to settle his bill, but. as the change was unavailable, he borrowed two £1 notes from 'him, "just till we get on board, you know." As a matter of j ; faot, iowover, they never got on board, at least not altogether, for 1 on the way thither tho borrower of the

notes suddenly disappeared, and for a time was no more seen? The matter was eventually repot t to Ohief-Deteo tivo Campbell, who, from the description given him yesterday aftoi noon, urrested a young man ne,med John MeKenzie on the charge ol obtaining £2 from the other man (whoso name also is John MoKowie) ty ineana of the confidence trick.— K.Z. Tims.