CONFIDENCE TRICK

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 238, 9 May 1933, Page 7

CONFIDENCE TRICK

J Sadder and Wiser American I One more American has left England i a sadder and wiser man. He had heard I all about the confidence trick before ihe went there. Consequently when two j suave gentlemen in a West End bar were i very obviously "trying it on him," he j chuckled inwardly—but led them on! | At last they realised thct their "victim" j was fooling them, and they tactfully vanJ ished. The American chuckled aloud and | went home. He ceased chuckling when jhe discovered that he was the poorer |by his wallet and £450. When the confi- ! dencc men failed they set a pickpocket j confederate to work. He succeeded. I i ■> ■