N.Z. CONFIDENCE VICTIM

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 721, 22 July 1929, Page 11

N.Z. CONFIDENCE VICTIM

TAKEN DOWN IN LONDON FOR £750 OLD INHERITANCE TRICK (United P.A.—By Telegraph Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Friday. A New Zealander, Mr. M. Dixon, of Wellington, who was staying in a London hotel, was tricked out of £750 by confidence-men, who told a story that they had a fortune to dispense among charities. “I would like to see the confidence man who could take me down,” was what Mr. Dixon told the confidence man, who relieved him of £750. Mr. Dixon informed the Australian and New Zealand Press Association that he had considered himself proof against any confidence man. He had travelled four months through various parts of Europe before reaching London, but he was in London only three days before he fell for an old inheritance trick. “I do not know what my friends in Australia and New Zealand will think of me for being such a fool, but I guarantee that nine out of ten of all the people I know would have fallen. All through I was guarded and suspicious, but at the last moment the whole thing looked so real that I handed over the money. “My advice to Australians and New Zealanders coming to London is: ‘Don’t hand over any money to anyone.’ ”