IMMIGRATION SWINDLE.
CLERK CONVICTED OF FRAUD. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, October 14. Douglas Macdonald, a clerk, convicted at the Mansion House on a charge of fraud, was sentenced to two terms" of imprisonment—six months on each of the charges.
Macdonald advertised for two ironmongers' assistants in the name of a Wellington firm of storekeepers, and undertook to pay half the passage money. Ho received thirteen sums of .£ll 10s. from men answering the advertisement.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1882, 16 October 1913, Page 7
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74IMMIGRATION SWINDLE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1882, 16 October 1913, Page 7
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