ROBBED OF £40,000
AUSTRALIAN SHEEPFARMER CONFIDENCE MEN’S HAUL Received May 19, 10.5 p.m. PARIS, May 18. Mr. James Watson, aged 65, a wealthy Australian shcepfaruier, informed" the police that confidence trick sters had swindled him of £40,000. He said that he had met a man, styling himself Janies Coaten, Canadian banker, who had introduced him to an “American financier” named Jamie son. Mr. Watson bad accepted Jamie son’s invitation to join in a deal in exchange involving £240,000, eacfi con tributing £BO,OOO to be deposited in a broker’s office. Mr. Watson had £40,000 sent from a London hank. Jamieson said ho had to go to Genoa on business and Coaten disappeared on a railway station. Neither had been seen since.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 117, 20 May 1932, Page 7
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