CONFIDENCE TRICK
At the Brighton (England) Quarter Sessions recently, Arthur Cardiff Mead, who said that he used to be a jockey in Australia, where he rode under the name of Arthur Adams, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude on a charge of stealing £2500 from Pherozshah Balsara, a retired Indian architect, and 18 months on a charge of conspiring with William Rey to defraud and convert the money to his own use, the sentences to run concurrently.
In passing sentence the Recorder described Mead as a skilled performer of the confidence tricks It was stated that he had served a sentence of 18 months in France for obtaining £10,000 by the confidence trick in 1934. . '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1938, Page 15
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116CONFIDENCE TRICK Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1938, Page 15
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