FRAUD CHARGES
TWO YEARS’ HARD LABOUR
(Per Press Association —Copyright).
AUCKLAND, July 13
“His was one of the greatest frauds ever put across in this country,” said Detective Sergeant McHugh iff the Police Court, when Frederick Joseph Huddleston*, aged.'2s, a clerk appeared on thirteen charges of imposing on persons by falsely representing that- certain, sums of money' were for fidelity bonds in the business of “J. Oppenheim and. Coy., Bankers.”.... Ho pleaded guilty, ami..was sente no-, ed to two years’ hard labour. Detective-Sergeant McHugh said that accused on January 23, booked at the City Hotel as Mr J. Oppenheim, and advertised for an accountant at £SOO, and a. clerk at £330. He interviewed numerous men, engaged -an office, and said that his firm vva s opening branches in many towns., . Many .of the men gave up permanent positions and pa-id him.£4 17s, 6d for fidelity bonds. When his Iwere -arrested, accused disappeared, but wa 6 found at Waipawa under another name, and working on another scheme. ~
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1933, Page 6
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166FRAUD CHARGES Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1933, Page 6
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