TRICKSTERS' KIT.
COMPLETE EQUIPMENT. The confidence trickster's complete equipment were described at Liverpool Police Court recently, when John Armstrong, aged 61. and George Robinson, aged 45, pleaded guilty to loitering, being suspected persons. It was stated that the accused, who had been many times convicted for obtaining money by tricks, evidently came to Liverpool to carry out confidence tricks among visitors to the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Show. They both posssessed all the paraphernalia of the confidence trickster, including blank telegraph forms, money-order forms, cards for the threecard trick, German 100.000-mark notes, an imitation £lO Bank of England note and a guide containing a list of all agricultural show dates throughout the country. Armstrong was sent to prison for six months and Robinson for three months.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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125TRICKSTERS' KIT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 3 (Supplement)
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