LOSS OF £40,000.
CONFIDENCE TRICK IN PARIS. AUSTRALIAN SHEEPFARMER SWINDLED. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BT KLECTEIC TEtBQBAPH—COI'YBIOHT ) (Received May 19th, 7 p.m.) PAEIS, May 18. James Watson, aged 6o years, a wealthy Australian sheepfarmer, has informed tho police that confidence tricksters had swindled him of £40,000. He said he met a man styling himself James Coaten, a Canadian banker, who introduced' an "American financier" named Jamieson. Watson accepted Jamieson's inyitation to join in a deal in exchange, involving £240,000, each contributing £BO,OOO, the money to be deposited at a broker's offico. Watson had £40,000 sent from his London bank. Jamieson said he had to go to Genoa on business. Coaten disappeared at the railway station. Neither has been seen since.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20551, 20 May 1932, Page 11
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