TRICKSTER’S KIT
COMPLETE EQUIPMENT The confidence trickster’s complete equipment were described at Liverpool Police Court recently, when John Armstrong, aged 61, and George Robinson, aged 45, pleaded guilty to loitering, eing suspected persons. It was stated that the accused, who had been many times convicted for obtaining money by tricks, evidently came to Liverpool to carry out confidence t licks among visitors to the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Show. They both possessed all the paraphernalia of the confidence trickster, including blank telegraph forms, money-order forms, cards for the three-card trick, German 100,000-mark notes, an imitation £lO Bank of England note and a guide containing a list of all agricultural show dater throughout the country. Armstrong was sent to prison for six months and Robinson for three months. Patent is the only means of protection to your ideas. Without patent, there is no assurance that others will not reap profits that should be yours. Henry Hughes Ltd. (Directors W. E. Hughes and J. T. Hunter, Registered Patent Attorneys), 214-217 D.I.C Building, Wellington.—Advt.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 229, 28 September 1931, Page 8
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170TRICKSTER’S KIT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 229, 28 September 1931, Page 8
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