NEW ZEALANDER DUP

Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1929, Page 13

NEW ZEALANDER DUP

TRICKSTER OBTAINS £7« VICTIM BOASTED OF CAUTKttI FELL TO OLD INHERITANCE TRI| By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. ■ Australian Press Association. I London, July 2<l “I would like to see the confide] man who could take me down,” w wliat Mr. M. Dixon, Wellington, tol<] confidence trickster who relieved 11 of £740 at a London hotel. Mr. Dixon said he had considered" hl self proof against any confidence ml He had travelled for", four mon! through various parts of Europe befl reaching London, but was in Loikl only three days before he fell to the' I inheritance trick. I "I do not know what my friends I Australia and New Zealand will ithil of me for being such a fool,” lienal ‘"but I guarantee that nine out of 11 of anyone I know would have falld All through I was guarded and suspil ous, but at the last moment the win thing seemed so real that I handed ov my money. My advice to Australia and New Zealanders coming to Lond< is: ‘Do not hand over any money anyone,’ ”