ALLEGED TRICKERY.
CATTLE DEALER’S STORY.
LONDON, May 17,
Charles Lawson, aged 45, described as a farmer, has been charged with obtaining £25,000 from David K. Hall by means of trickery. Hall met MacAually, another member of tile gang, who claimed to be a West Australian squatter. During a voyage from Australia in May, 1919, Hall was induced to go to Alfred Dean's flat, where ho lost £8074 to Lawson and Dean in twenty minutes, without any idea that anything was, wrong. Later he lost more money in a betting deal. Hall gave evidence that, he dealt in oaille and horses in New Zealand. He came to England (o buy cattle for tho New Zealand Government.
MacAnaliy, Dean and Dudley have already been sentenced to live years’ imprisonment. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 401, 19 May 1922, Page 5
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131ALLEGED TRICKERY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 401, 19 May 1922, Page 5
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