ALLEGED FRAUD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1940, Page 6

ALLEGED FRAUD

CHARGE AGAINST TWO MEN REMANDED TO WELLINGTON. SUM OF £6 465 MENTIONED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NELSON. This Day. At the Magistrate's Court. Harvey Maitland Chrystall, of Tahunanui, was charged with Gordon Percy Aston that on or about October 1, 1937. and on clivers dates between then and July 3, 1939, at Wellington and at various places in the Dominion, they conspired each with the other, be deceit, to defraud Hartley Roy Sellars of sums totalling about £6,465 Is 9d. On the application of Detective-Ser-geant F. Hayhurst, for the police, accused were remanded to the Magistratee’s Court at Wellington on January 13. CHRISTCHURCH PROCEEDINGS. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Alleging that, in conspiracy with another, he had defrauded Hartley Roy Sellars of sums amounting to over £6OOO, the police asked that Gordon Percy Aston, an engineer, aged 39. be remanded to appear in Wellington tomorrow when Aston appeared in court today. Aston was charged that between 1937 and 1939 he conspired with Harvey Maitland Chrystall. by deceit, to defraud Sellars of divers sums totalling £6,465.

Counsel for accused asked for a remand to Christchurch for two or three days, saying Aston had four or five companies operating in the South Island and wanted to put his business in order. He was not asking for bail.

The police said Chrystall had been arrested in Nelson and would be appearing in Wellington tomorrow and they wished them to be charged together. The magistrate granted a remand to Wellington.