Blind widow tricked
PA | Hastings A blind widow who lives alone in Hastings was tricked on Wednesday into paying! for a job that was riot done. The woman, who asked not to be named, said a young man knocked at her door and Offered to mow her lawns; | She said she thought he was the same person who usually did her lawns and gave him the key to the mower shed. ! I The widow |said| she heard the movyer going, assumed the young man had done the job anc paid him $l2. ; [ Senior-Sergeant Ken Tipping, iwho [described the trick) as despicable, said inquiries were under way. [ |
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Press, 18 March 1988, Page 6
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