MEN ARRESTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1941, Page 6

MEN ARRESTED

i AFTER HURRIED JOURNEY i & CHASE CHARGES OF FALSE PRETENCES. REMANDED TO WELLINGTON. i (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. Four men, three of whom.are underi stood to have come from Australia, arj rived at Ashburton hist night after a ‘ hurried trip from Wellington. They ' travelled by a specially chartered aero- ' plane io Blenheim, then by bus to the '■ . utskirls of Christchurch and then by j taxi to Ashburton. i They wore being sought by the poli ice on charges of obtaining moriey by Haise pretences and in due course were j arrested. They appeared before a special sitting of the Magistrate's Court in AshI burton at about i I 30 last night, and i were remanded to appear tn Christ- > church. They appeared here, when they I were remanded to appear in Wellinjo ' ton next Wednesday, Two of ilie men Edward Hughes. • alias Wilson, salesman aged 27. and i William Birch, alias It. McGlynn, sales- • man and .showman, also aged 27 were I charged with obtaining £55 from j Xenia Grant by falsely representing i that two zircons were diamonds. The ■ ether two men- (’narky Ryan alias I Cooper alias Charles Lewis Peoples I alias Maine, alias Burke, a clerk age- ; 25. and John Lenard alias .McGrath alias Jack Lenard alias Gamhell, a butcher need 29 were charged with | ebtaim'ng £l2 m immey and £23 by ;cheque through falsely representing : that four zircons mounted m gold ■ rings were diamonds Yesterday morning the Christchurch I police were asked to intercept the men ni! their arrival by bu< al Christchurch. Il was f- md. howi-ver. that they had' : left the bus before arriving in the city : The .Ashburton police were immediate’*; !>■ advi.wd and las. i.wnt two of the | met’ were arrested m a street. lhe other two men were- later located mi the back yard of a blacksmith's shop | The .dleg.i!;.-n i-: th;.! these two men i ’l to make oil and climbed j : t'A” fences, but were cut otT mid i arrestod