ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD.
Per Press Association. NAPIER, September 29. A despatch clerk at the local telegraph office, named Arthur Hanlen, aged nineteen, was arrested last nigVt on.a charge of attempting to conspire with one Hiram Ashcroft to defraud Edward Limbrick of £20 9s and £5 by means of false pretences. It is alleged that Ashcroft arranged with Limbrick, a bookmaker, to accept telegrams on , horse races. , These telegram8 | bore the telegraph office stamp iis having been handed m half-an-hour before the races were run ; but inquiries showed that the telegrams never passed through the office. Hanlen was before the Court this morning, and was remanded till Monday on bail. Ashcroft was arrested at' Palmerston North, and was remanded to Napier.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 7913, 29 September 1909, Page 3
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121ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 7913, 29 September 1909, Page 3
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