AGAIN THE “ROSARY”
Victim a New Zealander
CONFIDENCE MAN’S GUILE
London, May 19.
Gazing at an antique dealer’s win dow, a New Zealand farmer, William McNatight Cavan, and his wife were charmed by a well-dressed .stranger’s interest and offer to guide them sight seeing next day, when the inevitable passer-by dropped a rosary. This led to the old story that he was arranging charitably to distribute an uncle’s legacy of £BO,OOO. Mr. Cavan handed over a wallet containing £lOO in proof of his bona tides to act as dis tributor in New Zealand. He and his wife vainly waited an hour in a restaurant for the confidence men’s return.
A few weeks ago “The Dominion” published the story of n Wellington man who was defrauded of n large sum of money by the “rosary trick.” Tlie circumstances were the same except for the fact that the rosary was dropped in a church.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 200, 21 May 1931, Page 9
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