CONFIDENCE TRICK
ATTEMPT TO ROB NEW ZEALANDER
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
LONDON, Bth February.
Patrick Duggan, aged 38 years, _ an alleged associate of a confidence trickster and claiming to be an Australian, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to 18 months’ hard labour . for conspiring with Patrick Brennan to steal £OOO from George Robinson, a New Zealand visitor, who has now returned. Robinson became acquainted- with Brennan aboard a steamer, and subsequently with Duggan, and sought the police after the confederates had developed the usual plot involving each producing £OOO as bona tides to sharing a mythical fortune.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 10 February 1933, Page 5
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