LONG HUNT ENDS
WANTED MAN FOUND IN MOTUEKA.
FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE. (Ry Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 20. Two constables from Motueka went to a fruit farm about two and a half miles from the township early this morning and arrested Eric Stanley Watts, aged 35, insurance agent, who disappeared from Auckland on the afternoon of March 10. Watts admitted his identity. He will appear before the Motueka Magistrates’ Court on a false pretences charge before he is brought to Auckland. The mysterious disappearance of Watts has occupied the close attention of Detective Slater throughout the last five months. Watts’s car was found on Saturday, March 11, in a parking area between Queen’s Wharf and Prince’s Wharf. He had not been seen since the previous Wednesday, March 8, when he left the office where he was employed to keep a business appointment at Waimauku. In the car were found Watts’s hat and some insurance documents, but nothing to indicate that he had met with an accident.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1939, Page 5
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165LONG HUNT ENDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1939, Page 5
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