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Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11, 11 August 1911, Page 8

Dealing with "shady" Coronation visitors to London, the 'Daily Mail' said: —"By far the larger class of thieves who have come to London are "confidence men." The United States and New Zealand in particular have criminal representatives in the metropolis who are considered by the detectives as the cleaverest in the world. Faultlessly dressed, of easy manners, and with a quick appreciation of the weak points in human nature, they are formidable persons to outwit. In many cases they are the master minds who organise a robbery, be it a burglary, a theft from a pocket, or a confidence trick." This seems an undeserved compliment to New Zealand, which has hot yet begun to export criminals.