CONSPIRING TO DEFRAUD.
CONFIDENCE MAN SENTENCED. KNOWN IN AMERICA. AUCKLAND, May 16. Jack Walker, aged 32, a salesman, was sentenced to-day to three years’ hard labour for conspiring to defraud a farmer. Mr. Justice Smith, before sentencing the accused, read a cablegram from the Vancouver police, describing him as a card sharper and a coin matcher. His Honour said that it was quite clear that Walker was a practised confidence man. The sum involved in the conspiracy was £5BO, of which the accused alleged he got only £l'B2. The accused had told a detective that he thought New Zealand was a great little country, and that there was a lot of money to be made in Rotorua by a couple of good men. "But I would want a little protection,” he said. "We would give you 5 per cent, and guarantee that we would only take on visitors and never touch New Zealanders.” “When you get out of gaol, it will be as well for. you to leave the country,” said His Honour.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 17 May 1933, Page 3
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