GET RICH QUICK.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15664, 16 September 1922, Page 5

GET RICH QUICK.

CHRISTCHURCH MAN DEFRAUDED. •/*.

Probably “Get Rich Quick Wal* lingford” and “Brewster's Mil- A lions,” were the staple items in the supply of reading matter that 19 years old John Henry Irvine , kept under his pillow (states the Christchurch Sun). At any rate, when he appeared in the Magistrate Court on Sat*, urday morning, resplendent in a shot silk tie, and socks of the loudest tint of blatant purple, he admitted having concocted a get-rich-quick-scheme that would have been a money-maker had it lasted. Luckily for the public, Detective Sergeant T. Gibson got on to the tracks of the young confidence manwho pleaded guilty to having obtained the sum of £2O from William Magnus Cederman by means of fraud.

The story told by Sergeant Gibson was that the youth—who did not live with his mother and stepfather at Op aw a —had inserted in a Christchurch newspaper this advertisement : Man wanted, with £IOO to invest. Will receive permanent position and good salary. , The advertisement worked well. Many applications were received from returned soldiers, it being thought that over 70 men applied for the “permanent position with good salary .” To Cederman, Irvine became chatty and regaled the client , with a stor ythat he had purchased the Silvertown Rubbed Company’s business in Christ-. church. Cederman had then paid over £2O. “In just over .a week/said Sergeant Gibson, “the boy has raised over £IOO, of which we can trace only £lB 14s, which he says belongs to Cederman. The boy is a bit flash.” •Mr j H. Y. Widdowson, S.M., remanded Irvine for a week for sentence, pending a report by the. probation officer.