Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-29 | Page 3 | American Tourists Buncoed in London

AMERICAN TOURISTS BUNCOED I LONDON Washington, Jan. 29. Because an Increasing number of American tourists tour-ists are being victimized out of thousands thou-sands of dollars by a "confidence game" in London, the criminal investigation in-vestigation department of New Scotland Scot-land Yard has issued warning exposing expos-ing the scheme. Tbe game Is worked by two confederates, con-federates, one of whom explains that his uncle by the terms of an eccentric eccen-tric will gives him a fortune conditional condi-tional upon his distribution of 5000 pounds among the poor of tho American Amer-ican victim's native state. But In order to establish , confidence, the American is requested to draw 100 pounds from his bank, which is given to one of the confederates who disappears. dis-appears. Later the other goes to hunt for his companion and the victim vic-tim never sees them again unless, after lodging a complaint, he is called call-ed to identify them at the police station. sta-tion. Then the American must decide de-cide whether he will stay to prosecute prose-cute and thus lose his passage money or stand his loss. Consul General Griffiths, who has hrought the attention atten-tion of the stato department to this confidence game, says: "Incredible as It may seem, the supply of dupes seems to be Inexhaustible. Inex-haustible. The tricksters' season begins about April and continues until un-til the last visitor has left England late in the autumn. If visitors would use ordinary common sonso In their Intercourse with chance acquaintances acquaint-ances the business of the confldenco trickster would be ruined.