SYSTEMATIC FRAUDS
NEARLY ONE HUNDRED CHARGES.
Gisborne, January 29. Allegations of systematic fraud throughout New Zealand extended over six years, are made against, a man whom the police have in custody on charges of forgery and false pretences, to three of which charges lie has pleaded guilty. The police state that he lias confessed respecting other cases. He operated in Mastorton, Wellington, Mor-riiisA-ille, Matnmatn, Wanganui, Gisborne, and Auckland and may lie taken to other towns for identification. His favourite method, the police state, was to write out a cheque for an amount likely to be paid to a farm labourer, and drawn on a well-known estate in the district. He would probably go to a hotel licensee or storekeeper on Saturday aft onion, or on a bank holiday, and give a fairly big order to avoid suspicion, and receive the balance in cash. Perhaps several of these valueless cheques Avould be tendered and by the Monday morning. when the banks opened, he would have disappeared. It is stilted that there are nearly one hundred charges of false pretences and forgery pending from various towns in the North Island.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2689, 31 January 1924, Page 3
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188SYSTEMATIC FRAUDS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2689, 31 January 1924, Page 3
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