INGENIOUS FRAUD

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 721, 22 July 1929, Page 1

INGENIOUS FRAUD

VISITOR RELIEVED OF £ls TRICKED BY MAN AND GIRL The tale of an ingenious fraud which resulted in a trusting visitor from the King Country being left £l-5 pooper was told in the Police Court this morning, when Jack Karup was charged with stealing £ls from Andrew Bishop. piIARGED with Karup was a girl, 23 years of age, who admitted that she had obtained £lO from Andrew Bishop by falsely representing that Karup had been arrested for assault and that she wanted the money to go bail for him. Both accused pleaded guilty through Mr. Smyth. According to Chief-Detective Hammond. Karup had met complainant at an hotel, where they had several drinks. After visiting other hotels in the city Karup had taken Bishop, who was up from the King Country, to a party calling for the girl on th eway. When they arrived at the party it was discovered that there was only whisky and beer to drink and the girls wanted stout. Bishop had given Karup £5 to go out and buy the liquor. He had gone with the girl who had afterward come jback saying that Karup was in trouble and she wanted £7 10s to bail him out with. “Complainant then forked out another £10,” added the chief-dtective. Mr. Smyth could find no excuse for Karup’s action. He had known Bishop for some time and conceived the idea of getting money out of him when his mind was befogged by liquor. Complainant was evidently a bit of a simpleton, counsel considered. The girl was the youngest of nine in a family. She had realised the wrong she was doing and had made a frank admission to ihe police. She had also given them the address where she thought Karup would be found, and he had been arrested there. The Chief-Detective: He was at* rested in Gisborne. Mr. Smyth asked for probation for the girl, who, he said, was under Karup’s influence. She had been keeping company with him for some c£vs, but came of a highly respected Auckland family. She had had no | idea that Karup was dishonest, and, !in fact, up till this affair, he had shewn no signs of being so. Counsel i asi 3 for suppression of the name. T ijor Annie Gordon, female prob: on officer, supported counsel’s plea. The girl was suffering through had associations and probation would me the requirements of the case if l special conditions were granted so that the officer could have absolute control over her amusements and the The girl was admitted to probation for 12 months adn her name was sup- | pressed. “f feel like giving Karup three • m* rked Mr. I'. K. Hunt, ; 5.3 ... “but I shall remand him until tomorrow to see what the probation officer has to say about him.”