WRIT ISSUED.
THE FUGITIVE OFFENDERS ACT. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 12. After hearing evidence in respect of three charges of obtaining money by false pretences brought against William Madison Alt, motor engineer, formerly of Drury and Papakura, and now believed to be in Honolulu, Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., to-day granted an applieationu for a warrant to give legal authority for him to be bi-ought back to Auckland. The first charge was of obtaininrr by false pretences £432 from Basil Buddie, as agent for the New Zealand Guarantee Corporation, Limited, Wellington. Buddie, in evidence, said he advanced £432 to Alt, whom he knew previously, on his representation that he had sold a motor lorry to Thomas Robertson, of Papakura. it subsequently transpired that no sale had been made, and no such truck as the one mentioned existed.
It was stated that Alt left Auckland by the Aorangi on December 20. Evidence regarding two further similar charges was also given.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 79, 13 January 1928, Page 3
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