INGENIOUS FRAUD.
'■ : • THREE MEN SENTENCED. (PBSSS TOKHUUf.) AUCKLAND, March . 5. An ingenious fraud was revealed in the Magistrate's Court when three young • ■ - * . .. .. j? ■, J.-.; •/ r • *
men admitted making a false document; .purporting, to. be a letter from London solicitors. They took a ' letterhead printed by a city firm and had typed on it a letter purporting to, inform the recipient that he had been bequeathed £250 in cash and an annuity of £IOB. On this, a city loan,_ company, after reference, to its solicitorj advanced £ 25. 1 The men.tried.the same trickwith an: ; other'loan company, wiu«h §lao
>■-. -> f * «■ ferred the matter to its solicitor. - .... latter detected the .fraud and'i the police. " ; ' for three years. William Arthi^*fo£ ij* tfaa adnrittecTta
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20179, 6 March 1931, Page 17
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118INGENIOUS FRAUD. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20179, 6 March 1931, Page 17
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