CHARGES OF FRAUD
PLEAS OF GUILTY. SOLDIER AND WOMAN BEFORE COURT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 25. A soldier who had been decorated in the present war and mentioned in despatches was jointly charged with a women before Justices of the Peace with obtaining £237 19s 6d between February 1, 1940, and September 16, 1942, from the Army Department by falsely representing that he was married and had one child. He was Ser-geant-Major Alexander John Grimmond, aged 32, and he was charged with Helen' Anne Smith. Staff-Sergeant Burley said the pay records showed Grimmond as a married man with one child. Grimmond would have received an allotment for a de facto wife if they had been living together for 12 months and, in any case, the child would have been maintained. He understood the pair had been living together for nine or ten months. Pleas of guilty were entered by both accused, who w*ere committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1943, Page 3
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161CHARGES OF FRAUD Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1943, Page 3
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