CONFIDENCE TRICK.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, December 3. As Scotland Yard is on the tracks of certain miscreants wlio made off with £6OOO belonging to Mr T. H. Wilkinson, they are giving no details regarding the successful confidence trick. Mr Wilkinson himself lias gone to Cornwall and has left no address behind him. The simple story is the very old one. A certain man stayed a t the same hotel as Mr Wilkinson in Upper Woburn place, and in due course, as the result of frequent conversations, interested iha visitor in Stock Exchange deals. A confederate was introduced who was stated to have first-hand Stock Exchange information in regard to dealings in wheat. After further conversations Mr Wilkinson was induced to hand over £SOOO in notes. The confederates then made an excuse to leave the hotel and that was the last the victim saw of them. Mr Wilkinson is described as a visitor from New Zealand. Scotland Yard, it is announced, have a faD. description of the men who decamped with the manoy.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19373, 8 January 1925, Page 7
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