ALLEGED FRAUD
ACCUSED’S HARD LICK STORY. By Telegraph—Press Assn., Copyright. WANGANUI, Nov. 28. An extraordinary story of the financial transactions of George Robert Hindi with Ronald Hendrioh Nitschke was related befrire Mr Justice Smith at the Supreme Court. Hindi was indicted on thirteen charges of having obtained various sums by means of false pretences and theft, and of committing forgery and uttering. The sum of about £2,100 was involved. Nitschke gave lengthy evidence, stating that Hindi’s story of hardship was very touching, and be bad befriended him. Hindi was pressed for statements of the state of the transactions at various times, but put him off and said the profits had been put back into the business; having represented that the money had been used to buy shares of the N.Z. Commercial Association. The hearing of the ease for . the prosecution occupied all day. and the court continued to-night, adjourning at a late hour, until to-morrow, when the defence will be heard.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19281129.2.49
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1928, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
161ALLEGED FRAUD Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1928, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in