FRAUD CHARGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1942, Page 6

FRAUD CHARGE

AGAINST WOOLCOTT-FORBES & ASSOCIATE. EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) DALLAS (Texas), October 28. The Associated Press of America says that the Federal authorities have been authorised to institute proceedings for the removal to New York of Jonn Woolcott-Forbes and A. W. Dawson, according to the United States Attorney, Mr Robert Dann, who said that the pair were charged with fraud and misrepresentation, also with persuading Mrs Mary Jane Frey, widow, to liquidate Government bonds, and that a cheque for 3750 dollars for the bonds, falsely endorsed, was deposited in Dawson’s account in the Chase National Bank. The full story of Forbes’s activities in the United States has not yet been told, but it is understood he was active during the early summer, when he struck up acquaintance with a series of wealthy widows and other women in New York, New England, and possibly other parts of the country. It was unofficially indicated that the request by the Premier of New South Wales, Mr McKell, for Forbes’s extradition would be a diplomatic rather than a. legal matter, and it would not be surprising if Australia got him —if it wanted him badly enough.