MONEY FOR POPE.
CONFIDENCE TRICKSTER. BRICKLAYER LOSES' £3OO. LONDON, Sept. 27.. Australians visiting Australia House are warned against a confidence gang operating in the vicinity. Their victims include a prominent business man, and the latest dupe, P. Hoeck, a bricklayer, lost his life’s savings, £3OO. He met a man who said he had inherited £600,000, of which a third was for the Pope, and a third for the Australian poor.* He offered a commission to Hoeck to distribute the money in Australia, and secured Hoeck’s savings as a guarantee of his bona fides. He then disappeared.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6203, 7 October 1921, Page 7
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