“GOLD FOR NOTES”
OLD MAN DUPED TWO TRICKSTERS SENTENCED [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 10. Alexander M'C'rae and Royal Desmond Capuer were sentenced to-day for the “ gold for notes ” trick which they successfully practised on a man who was staying in Auckland before leaving on a trip to Scotland. Mr Justice Herdman said it was a very clever piece of trickery. The prisoners had found an old man in the lounge of the Y.M.C.A. One 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 £7O in notes, expecting to got sixty-two sovereigns. Capner was sentenced to two years, with hard labour, and M/Crae to two years’ reformative detention.
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Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 12
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