INGENIOUS FRAUD
A SPURIOUS DOCUMENT. THREE, YOUNG MEN CONVICTED. AUCKLAND, March 5. An ingenious fraud was revealed in the Police Court when three voting men admitted making a false document purport i no* tit he a letter I rom London solicitors. They took a letterhead, printed by a city firm and bad 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 solicitor, advanced £25. The men tried the same trick with another loan company, which also referred the matter to its solicitor. The latter detected the fraud and rang up the police. Athol Henry Leighton, aged thirty, was committed to a Borstal Institute for three years. William Arthur Gordine, aged twenty-five, was sent to gaol for eighteen months, and Rupert George Bell, twenty-one, was admitted to two years’ probation.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1931, Page 5
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153INGENIOUS FRAUD Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1931, Page 5
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