AN ENGLISH DEFAULTER ARRESTED IN NEW ZEALAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1914, 11 October 1884, Page 2

AN ENGLISH DEFAULTER ARRESTED IN NEW ZEALAND.

[BY TELEGRAPH.— PItKSS ASSOCIATION.] WrjjASQroti, Thursday. The defalcations of A. F. Anderson, who was arrested yesterday at Otaki, aie believed to bo much greater than was at first supposed, a cable message having been received from home stnting that the amount of his peculations from his late employers, the Board of Guardians at JJownton Hill workhouses, Liverpool, has been ascertained to exceed £5000. At the time the warrant for his apprehension was issued the sum known to have been appropriated was only £340, but since his arrest further infornuition has come to hand, and several fuithcr chaiges- of embezzlement are likely to be prefeired against him on his arrival in England. The accused occupied the posigovernor of the workhouse, an appoint ment which he had held for six years at a salary of £500. A diary found on him when art e&ted .showed that he leftLneipool on the 27th of last March, and i cached Paris the next day, putting up at a cafe utidee the name of Hamilton. He remained several weeks in Paris, and then wandered about Europe for several moie, eventually reaching Naples. Here he took one of the Orient steamers and came to Australia, and landed at Sydney thn>e months ago, and came on to Wellington some five or six weeks ago. On le.iUung heie he dropped his assumed name, being afiaid that Ins biother, who was residing in Wellington at the time, wonld suspuct something wrong, and Anderson then purchased astoieat OUki, over which he is said to have spent £000 or £700. His wife and child are now en route for this country. Rever.tl letteis in his possession slumthat his wife kept him posted as to fie domgs of the Koaid of Guardians and the English police authorities.