A WIDOW VICTIMISED.
RESULT OF MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, May 30. Leslie Murray, ship’s fireman, was charged with having obtained £4O by false pretences from Margaret Isabel Wilson, "widow.
The latter advertised in the matrimonial columns of the papers and Murray replied representing himself as an ex-naval officer who had been courtmartialled and discharged on a charge of hanging a. German submarine officer after the white flag had been hoisted. He met Mrs. Wilson, obtained from her £4O, went to Wellington and was arrested. It was discovered that he was a married man and had never been in the navy, but in the coastal trade as fireman. Accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1921, Page 5
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121A WIDOW VICTIMISED. Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1921, Page 5
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