SALARIED DAUGHTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 8

SALARIED DAUGHTERS.

.. I MAN'S CLEVER RUSE. HELPED TO PASS FALSE CHEQUES. I — ! "I engaged the girls to travel with mc, as I knew it would be easier to cash tho cheques if they were passed off as my daughters," said George William Sullivan in a statement to Detective O'Sullivan, when charged with obtaining sums of money, goods, and hotel board by means of valueless cheques. Accused, who was represented by Mr. Blakey, appeared in the Police Court yesterday afternoon, pleaded guilty aiid was committed for sentence. The total amount involved was about, £100. ! In his statement to the detective, accused said he came to Auckland in the first week in April, but did not find employment. For tho past eleven years he had been farming in the Hamilton and Fielding districts. A firm of agents who held a bill of Bale over his Fielding property had seized the stock and effects when he could not keep up his payments owing to hard times. After the farm was sold up accused quarrelled with his wife, and a separation order for £2 a week was issued against him. When in Auckland accused stayed in Symonds Street, and on April 2 he advertised that he wanted a nursegirl for a couple touring New Zealand, "pood wages, homely." About 50 young girl-? applied, and accused engaged one of them, taking her to Te Aroha. where he.left her at the Palace Hotel. He had promised to nay this girl £1 per week. He had not seen her since. On returning to Auckland, he engaged another girl, whom he took to Tauranga, and from there to Rotorua. where he I left her at the Arcadia Hotel. From | there he went to Napier, and then to l Wellington. From the latter city he | wired to this girl to come to Wellinni ton, and to meet, him at Thorndon rail- ' | way station. The girl left the station j before accused arrived, am. he had not since seen her. Accused said he stayed nt an hotel in Wellesley Street for ten days, and made out a cheque for £10, which he presented to the licensee in payment of his board. The licensee :! tjo "ye him £0 odd in change. Accused j left his luggage behind him. On April !11 accused obtained clothing and boots ; | from a trading company in Hobson i Street, writing a cheque for £37 18/4 ' and receiving £4 10/9 in change. Some of the clothing was for vouncr girls , whom he had engaged. To the girl ' whom he took to Te Aroha accused cave clothing to the value of £27. At I Te Arohn. accused' paid his hotel ac- | I count with a valueless cheque for £10. ! receiving £5 15/6 in change. On April | MIS, at Tauranea. accused purchased j t i two tickets to Rotorua for himself and | . the girl, and tendered a cheque for -14 j ', ! 10/. At a Hamilton drapery ostablish- . ' ment on April 12, accused bought cloth- | . j ing to the value of £2, receding £5 in I change for the valueless cheque which | '_ jhe tendered. The sum of £2 in change | i was received Ivy accused from a Napier j '. j hotel proprietor to whom accused j r i passed a cheque in payment for board, j , He repeated this trick in Wellington, ! , receiving £4 in change from the pro- j f rictor of the Grand Central Hotel. ' Accused know the cheques to be value- j ' I less. In a supplementary- statement. ' j accused admitted receiving £2 10/ in clianpc from tbe proprietress of a pri- | L vate hotel in Rotorua, £2 10/ being de ; ' I ducted from a valueless" cheque for £o , in respect of board for the girl who was with him. The sum of £3 was i obtained from a Tauranga hotelkecper ! and board to the value of £2 14/ by 1 ] means of another cheque.' } _=t________________