DELIBERATE FRAUD.
AN INTERESTING CASE. “WENT THROUGH £500,000.” By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Wellington, July 27. Richard Noel Belcher Birkin, a man of dO, was charged with having obtained £5 by false representations. Some interesting statements were made during the hearing of the case. The police said accused, who had been working on the wharf and grubbing gorse on the. hills, persisted in declaring that he was coming into a fortune of £300,000, and, on the strength of this, had obtained money from a number of people, in one case as much as £lOO. He was a man of good English family. Accused himself had made a statement to the police, which was read. Birkin alleged that his father was a rich manufacturer in Nottingham. After his father’s death and that of other relatives he had come into much property, and he understood some leases had run out last year which would give him £300,000 more. He came to New Zealand in 1912 and had been employed at Somes Island as guard and in the dental corps. Since March he had been out of employment and wanted money for board and lodging. Accused’s counsel said he believed Birkin had gone through half a million of money. He had communicated with his London agents, but had not received a reply yet. Accused believed he was entitled to a further large sum from at least two reversions, but there was some doubt as to whether his father had not cut him out of them iu his will. The Stipendiary Magistrate said he could not pass over a deliberate i . and and sentenced accused to a month’s imprisonment.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1922, Page 5
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273DELIBERATE FRAUD. Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1922, Page 5
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