GOLD FOR NOTES
OLD MAN DECEIVED
TRICKSTERS SENT TO GAOL
(By Telegraph.'—Press. Association)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
Alexander McCrac and Royal Desmond Capner were sentenced today for a "gold.for notes" trick which they sueecs&fully-practised on a man who was staying in Auckland before' leaving on a trip to Scotland.
Mr. Justice Herdrnan said that it was a very clever piece of trickery. The prisoners had found" an old man in the lounge of the V.M.C.A. One had told him he was a clerk in a bank, and the other that he was employed by a shipping company. The old man had handed over £70 in notes, expecting to get G2 sovereigns.
Capner was sentenced to two years' hard ; .labour,and McCrae to two years' refofmatiyo detention. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 13
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124GOLD FOR NOTES Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 13
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