TELLING THE TALE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 20

TELLING THE TALE

CONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS

The successors of Patsy O'Farrell the notorious Irish confidence trickster' who five years ago defied Scotland Yard's efforts to arrest him f or swindling scores of foreign visitors have fallen on hard times "SltorsThe English season, now coming to an end, has been almost unproductive for two.reasons. Visitors to London are repeatedly warned by the transport t™ T? t r h egard.in«? Wcksters of ZZ type, but the principal reason is that there is no Patsy, in their ranks, with Only a really stupid person would succumb io the wiles of the shabby people who now tell the tale of for tunes for dispersal with a lack of en--Sy mMan-)! Iting tODgUe3 (BayS »c Scotland Yard knows all the "hot seat tricksters. The nickname is derived from the fact that a victim .site waiting perhaps for hours, with a Police warnings: are seldom effective in saying a victim from the snare alt tor him. Often the heads of great busmess firms are trapped into scheme for making money quickly on the Stock Exchanges, which always end in the same way.