Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to hoax, to humbug, to subject to confidence trickery.

c.1850		Dickens ‘The Artful Touch’ in Works VIII (1863) 325: Some of the swell mob [...] so far kiddied us as to hire a horse and shay, start away from London by Whitechapel, and [...] come into Epsom from the opposite direction, [...] while we were waiting for them at the rail.
1861		(con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor I 416/2: There they met with beggars who kiddied them on to the lurk.