R.S.A. DEFRAUDED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 563, 16 January 1929, Page 1

R.S.A. DEFRAUDED

THIRD ARREST MADE MAY BE OTHERS Following on the arrest of two men who wer.e convicted at the Police Court yesterday on a charge connected with p scheme they had concocted to defraud the Returned Soldiers’ Association, a third financial expert was charged this morning. William Lawrence Bowler, a bushman, aged 39, pleaded “guilty in the circumstances” to obtaining 17s Gd from the Returned Soldiers* Association by falsely representing that a certain receipt for £1 15s was genuine. “Two men were convicted on a similar charge to this yesterday, and there are others to come in,” said Chief-Detective Hammond as he outlined Bowler’s plan of action. The association had money co distribute and had adopted tne systc m of refunding half the amount of the wages to employers who gave work to ex-service men. A receipt from the workman was necessary before the money could be claimed, so Bowler, acting on the same plan as the men charged yesterday, made out a fake eceipt with the help of a second man. By this means he obtained the 17s 6d. Mr. Hammond asked that Bowler be stood down for sentence until Tuesday as the other two men were to be sentenced on that day. “They seem to have found an easy way to make money,” commented Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M.