DAUGHTER MISSING.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 8

DAUGHTER MISSING.

j PARENTS RECEIVING "BILLS." j SHOPKEEPER'S CLAIM DISPUTED. According to statements made in a case at the Feilding Magistrate's Court, a number of business houses in Feildiug and Palmerston North have been duped by a girl ordering fancy dresses and evening shoes in the name of her paxents. Otto and Gertrude Pussell were sued for £1S 5/4 by a boot importer, who said he had supplied boots and shoes of that value to them in the last thiee years. He also said that the defendants had been customers of his for IS years. For the defence it was stated that the defendants' daughter Eva had suddenly broken out and ordered shoes and dresses in Feilding and Palmerston North and had run up accounts totalling about £100. bhe had b ( een working and came home in the afternoons. In April last, the girl disappeared and it was then that defendants realised what had been going on. They denied receiving any of the goods. The magistrate said it was inconceivable that men's boots should be ordered j and not received. He was not at all satisfied that Mrs. Pussell did not receive the goods ordered by her daughter. He trusted that the police would pursir their investigations as to the whereabouts of the daughter, so that the matter would bo cleared up. Judgment was given for L £7 10/6.