CONFIDENCE TRICK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 14

CONFIDENCE TRICK.

VISITOR ROBBED OF £ls.

MAN DISAPPEARS WITH NOTES

SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT. The story of a confidence trick by which £ls was obtained from a young man who arrived in Auckland from Australia in December was told in the Police Court yesterday, when Leonard Stanley Dunsford, an Australian, was charged with the theft of that sum from Lancelot Gordon Harrison. In evidence, Harrison said accused was a fellow-passenger on tlie boat from Sydney. Accused accompanied him when lie left tho boat at Auckland, stating that he would show him about the city. When passing up Queen Street, accused said he was about to change some money and suggested that witness should also change his. Witness gave accused threo £5 Australian notes and accused went into a Queen Street building. After waiting some time witness searched tho building, but could not find accused, lie complained to the police and subsequently selected accused from photographs shown him at the police station. Detective Carroll, of Wellington, said he arrested accused, who denied any knowledge of the incident. In a statement from the dock accused said lie could not find complainant when he came out of the' building. " Accused is now serving a sent euro of threo months' imprisonment for theft, at Marton," said Detective-Sergeant Kelly. " Tho Australian police state that ho is a well-known confidence man and they would be pleased to get him." " They will have the opportunity," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in sentencing accused to imprisonment for six months, to be served at. the expiration of the present sentence. The magistrate also made an order for the deportation of accused on his leaving gaol.