Engineer Charged
SUM OF £2,165 INVOLVED ALLEGATION OF FRAUD By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. SYDNEY, Thursday. John Robert O’Brien, engineer, who was arrested on a provisional warrant on a charge of obtaining £2,165 from Albert Pearson by false pretences at Wellington, New Zealand, appeared in the Police Court to-day. O’Brien said he sold Pearson a share in the New Zealand rights in a motor-car signal device, which he invented, for £1,860. He left New Zealand in order to get the invention on the Australian market.
Superintendent Mankey, who is in charge of the Sydney branch of the Criminal Investigation Department, said O’Brien had seen him in reference to the invention. Witness said he thought the invention was very ingenious. The case was adjourned until tomorrow.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 229, 16 December 1927, Page 1
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