AN IMPUDENT FRAUD.
(per press association.)
Wellington, This Day
James Herbert Evans was charged at the Police Court this morning with a series of impudent frauds. According to the statement of the police, he represented himself as a brother of a wellknown Government officer, and obtained a blank cheque form from a bank official and filled in the cheque for a certain sum, and with this and five guineas in cash opened a hank account in which he drew to the extent of £201), victimising a number of local trades by purchasing articles in exchange for cheques. Ho pleaded guilty and was remanded for sentence till to-morrow.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 20 April 1901, Page 4
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107AN IMPUDENT FRAUD. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 20 April 1901, Page 4
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