ARREST OF BOGUS INSPECTOR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1743, 20 October 1917, Page 3

ARREST OF BOGUS INSPECTOR.

A month or two ago, the operations of a man named David Carter, with several aliases, created some stir throughout these districts by representing himself as an inspector of telegraphs, hiring motor cars and speeding from one town to another, and disappearing at the critical moment and leaving his chauffeur lamenting. One escapade commenced in Napier, where he engaged a motor to come through to Palmerston, calling at some of the country telegraph Offices'en route, which the bogus inspector duly “inspected.” From Palmerston he motored to the Kairanga district, where he mysteriously disappeared. He reappeared at Raugiotu, and repi’esenting himself as an inspector of’ the Agricultural Department, worked himself into the good graces of a well-known farmer. there, and the latter consented to motor the “inspector” to Wellington. He appears then to have taken a tour through the Wairqrapa, where the role of agricultural inspector was jplayed with success. He disappeared and reappeared like a will-o’-the-wisp, meanwhile running up a list of offences, for which he is wanted in Wanganui, Napier, Hastings, Auckland, Newton, and Bunnythorpe. At the latter place he appears to have got possession of a horse, trap and hariiess, with the alleged theft of whigh he will be ehfu-ged. Needless to say “the law” has been keeping its eye wide open for the absconder, who was laid by the heels near Marton yesterday morning by Sergeant” Cahill and "Constable Anderson, and taken into i custody. Carter will be brought before a Magistrate in due course,