GOLD FOR NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 17644, 25 April 1921, Page 7

GOLD FOR NOTES

NEW ZEALANDER VICTIMISED. Melbourne ‘ Age 1 of April 5 records the victimisation of Mr S. E. Whitewood, a New Zealander, who reached Melbourne en route for Durban by the steamer Themistocles on the 4th. On the Sydney wharf he met tire usual ingratiating stranger, who, as luck would lave it, was also going to Durban. Their friendship progressed on the voyage, and Mr Whitewood’s friend, Mr “D. Hogan,” whispered one day that he hw» “« iuiKT of introduction to a man at Tiros. Cook and Sons, Melbourne, who would exchange gold for notes.” On arriving here they went to Cook’s, and “ Hogan ” entered the Bank of Adelaide next door, reappearing shortly afterwards with a man who was introduced as Mr “Harrison.” Mr “ Harrison ” told Mr Whitewood that he could get him £2O in gold and £5 in Australian notes for £25 in New Zealand notes. The New Zealander handed over £25, and waited on tiro footpath while Mr “ Harrison ” entered a passage way near Cook’s. Mr “ Hogan ” went off to buy some cigarettes, and the two_ men, with that deplorable absence of mind so common among confidence men. forgot to return.