STOWAWAY’S ILL-LUCK
CAUGHT ON OLD CHARGE MONEY FOR A FUNERAL Roy Gault, aged 32, learnt to-day that the law has a long memory. His ill-timed return to New Zealand as a stowaway resulted in a second appearance at the Police Court to-day. Yesterday, Gault was charged with stowing away on the Aorangi at Suva, and Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., ordered him to pay his fare. To-day he pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining, in January, 1924, a sum of £ 3 by falsely representing that his sister had died, and he needed the money to bury her. Chief-Detective Ward said that after the offence was committed accused went away to New South Wales, and later to Suva. Mr. Leslie Adams, who appeared for accused, said that he had borrowed the money on behalf of a friend whose wife had died. Being muddled with drink he told the man he defrauded that it was his sister who was dead. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.. fined accused 40s and ordered him to make restitution.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 124, 16 August 1927, Page 1
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