THE CONFIDENCE GAME
NEW ZEALANDBE CHARGED IN
LONDON.
(United Press Association-«CopyrJght.) (Sydney Sun Cable.)
(Beceived 12th February, noon.)
LONDON, 11th February.
The Bow Street Magistrate remanded for medical examination a New Zealander, Alfred Daniel Walton, who, in the name of James Desmond, pleaded guilty to obtaining money by false pretences from 'Miss Crichton Jmrie, New Zealand proprietress of a London tearoom. •
A detective gave evidence that the New Zealand Office was inundated with complaints of Walton's victims, from whom he had obtained money, telling a tale of a lost wallet. Walton is aged 51, and was formerly a commercial traveller in New Zealand, Melbourne, and Sydney. He was previously convicted at Auckland, DunSdin, and Napier, and four times m England since 1921. . ™
The prisoner's' brother came from America and offered to maintain him. He pleaded that a serious illness must have affected the prisoner's mind.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 37, 12 February 1926, Page 9
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145THE CONFIDENCE GAME Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 37, 12 February 1926, Page 9
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