FARMERS DEFRAUDED
LABOURER SENTENCED IN WELLINGTON.
I (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day.
Circumstances under which a number of farmers anxious to obtain labour were defrauded of money forwarded for travelling expenses by Lpo Douglas Morpeth were described in court, when Morpeth, a labourer, aged 27, pleaded guilty to six charges of theft. In four cases a sum of £1 was involved, in a fifth case 10s, and in a sixth case a railway ticket valued at £1 0s Id. The modus operand! was to answer advertisements and, on receipt of a notification of engagement, to request that a portion of the railway fare be forwarded, these latter arrangements being conducted by telegraph. Morpeth used an assumed name, care of the Auckland Post Office. He used the ticket’ mentioned, but did not, go to the position. It was stated that the idea occurred to him as a result of genuine applications to two farmers at the same time, and both forwarding the fare as requested. He was given a month on each charge, two of them cumulative.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1938, Page 8
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