SUSPECTS FOR TRIAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21561, 4 August 1933, Page 12

SUSPECTS FOR TRIAL

ALLEGED CONFIDENCE TRICK AUSTRALIAN COUPLE'S HOLIDAY How an Australian couple, holidaying in London, fell the victims of alleged confidence tricksters was described when Henry Lennon, aged 46, engineer, and Thomas George Martin, aged 35, of independent means, appeared at the West London. Court recently. Arrested as suspected persons alleged to have had in their possession wallets containing "Swank of England" notes, accused were further charged with stealing by a trick £IOO belonging to Mr. Ernest Archibald Wright, and a diamond ring worth £ls from Mrs. Wright. Prosecuting counsel said that Mr. Wright was an Australian on holiday in England. While he and his wife were in an Oxford Street store Leiinan got into conversation with him. Ho said ho was a cattle buyer on holiday. Later, when walking along the street, a man in front of them dropped a walk-ing-stick, and he also got into conversation.

The second man, Martin, stated ho was from "Western Australia, and that ho was in England in connection with a fortune of £600,000 left him by his uncle. One of the conditions attached to the legacy was that he should distribute £(50,00(\ to charities. "The usual confidence trick talk followed," added counsel. Subsequently Mr. Wright parted with £IOO in order, as the other two said, to display his trust. At Martin's suggestion Mrs. Wright handed over a diamond ring, to "show how much she trusted hiuj." Both men then disappeared, but were subsequently arrested. They were committed for trial.