SWINDLERS’ HARVEST.
| VICTIMS CARD-INDEXED. I ~ ! LONDON, March 3. I An • army of American “white collar bandits,” otherwise bogus share swindlers, is concentrating in West End hotels. At least 200 are known to be in London. , , . , So conhdent are they of a long period of plunder that they have brought their wives to ' enjoy the delights of a season at the expense or English widows and orphans, and Dominion visitors, whom they regard as the “sweetest mooches” in the world. , These swindlers are known to have harvested £5,000,000 in two years operations. “Dynamites” (or pushlul door to door salesmen) receive £SO a week and 25 per cent, commission toi unloading worthless oil and land i- Quite a profession has sprung up. Card indexes are prepared, with intimate particulars of prospective victims. One bandit paid several thoui sand pounds for a good sucker i index, and. admitted that he soon 1 recouped his outlay.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 16 March 1926, Page 9
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152SWINDLERS’ HARVEST. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 16 March 1926, Page 9
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