CONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS.
AN AUSTRALIAN GANG. FIVE TRAPPED IN LONDON. LONDON. July 15. Five Australians. M. Dudley (a bookmaker), A. Dean, James Brennan, Chas. Mansfield (an optician), and G. March (a contractor) were each sentenced to five years' imprisonment at Old Bailey 'for obtaining money by abetting , , card tricks, and a game known as Anzac. poker. Inspector Leach gave evidence that accused were members of a gang of confidence tricksters, who had been working the disabilities of Indians resident Continent. Brennan, who had been previously sentenced in Australia, was concerned in frauds v;hich .yielded £3.">,4R2. It&was stated that the frauds of the others yielded in the case of Dean £57,623, in&he case of Dudley £47,202, and in the case of March £60~750.— (A. ,and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 168, 16 July 1921, Page 7
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