CUT RICH QUICK.

Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1292, 12 September 1922, Page 8

CUT RICH QUICK.

CHRISTCHURCH MAN DEFRAUDED. Probably “Get Rich Quick Wallingford” and “Brewster’s Millions,” 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 Magistrates Court on Saturday 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 haa it lasted. Luckily for the public, Detective Sergeant T. Gibson got on to the tracks of the young confidence man who 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 step father at Opawa—had inserted in a Christchurch newspaper this advertisement: Man wanted, with £IOO fo invest. Will receive permanent position and gool 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 story that he had purchased the Sil7ertown Rubber Company’s busings in Christchurch. Cederman had then paid over the £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 H. Y. Widdowson, S.M., remanded Irvine for a week for sentence, pending a report by the probation officer.