Charge of Fraud.
" (TTNrTED PBBSS ASSOCIATION.) * t J^;v?'<su»isT£HiJßCH, Monday. Thomas Howe, formerly time-keeper oh the Lyttelton Railway, and eipht other employes, are charged with defrauding Government by means of Howe' , -giving the. others , crqcjitj for doing work which they never performed.; Exact amount of defalcations. 'are. not jknown. It ig Tbelreved :fo be^btne hundreds. Howe, was arrested m Wellington, and arrived 'yesterday; : ■ ;. . ••■• ■■•■ ■•••■'■' - Later. , Nine late employes m the Railway service at Lyttelton wore charged to-day before the R.M. Court! wftti conspiracy to- defraud .. the Government. The men were remandfed /till Wednesday next, as one of the principal conspirators has not yet been arrested. ;
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 4, 2 June 1885, Page 2
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103Charge of Fraud. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 4, 2 June 1885, Page 2
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