THE ROSARY TRICK.
CONFIDENCE MEN’S £4OO HAUL. (From Ocr Own Correspondent.) LONDON, April 7. Mr J. H. Kruger. a young South African fanner staying at the Regent Palace Hotel, has beon tho victim of confidence men, who got away with £420 after practising tho “dropping rosary trick.” A man who said ho was a New Zealander got into conversation with Mr Kruger in the hotel loungo and suggested sight-seeing. They met a Canadian, and on the wav along the Embankment a man in front dropped a rosary. Mr on restoring it, was offered a 10s nota "'All four went to a bar at Blackfriare, whero the roeary man an Irishman, pro. ducod a “will” showing that he nad thousands of pounds to disperse. It waj suggested that money should bo sent to relatives of tho trapped Newcastle miners Mr Kruger agreed to help, and to show his bona tides handed the Irishman £42o* TTio party then continued the sight-seeinj tour, and the throe men aeoampea.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3714, 19 May 1925, Page 60
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165THE ROSARY TRICK. Otago Witness, Issue 3714, 19 May 1925, Page 60
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