A LORD'S NEPHEW.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 529, 9 June 1909, Page 7

A LORD'S NEPHEW.

TWELVE MONTHS FOR t'ALSE PRETENCES. (ni TELKGiurn— ritKss association.] ' t ♦, c ' „ Auckland, Jun o 8. ® Supreme Court to-day, James H M Clure, nephew of tho late Lord Ovortoun, was charged with having, on April 14, 1909 2," 10 by pretences from John Thomas Turner. Ihe circumstances' of ~th© case wero simp e, and, as tho Crown l'rosecutor remarked, of a kind .quito common. JV s °, went ' at ° a clothior's shop, and asked Turner whether he had enough money T O . f ° r , £1 °- 1110 clle 9 u ° was duly cashed, but when presented at tho bank two days later it was dishonoured Mr. Lundon addressed the jury at some length, in opening the case for tho-defence.-OX j !' ,n s i ) tl,a f. for a considerable time accused, had been living at the rate of about a wcek - Ho was in receipt of a large w ho , s P ent extravagantly Ho_had been owner of a largo plantation in Fiji. A&used said that ho was 24 vears nf He received his last remittee'from Lady Ovortoun, • who was his aunt. Ho had drawn from h.s mother's estate some £1400 since January, 1903. Witness gave a do nr°T 0 d S DgS durin E tk ° last tour or five years. He admitt«l havina been imprisoned in Hobart for uttering a valueless cheque. When he cashed tt,* cheque with Turner he thought he hurl monoy m- the bank to meet it ° Th o ; ur ,-