IN PURCHASING MOOD.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 35, 11 February 1929, Page 19

IN PURCHASING MOOD.

CHEQUES IN INVERCARGILL. MAX AND WOMAN ARRESTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) JXVERCARGILL, Sunday. A middle-aged couple, the man's name fceinp eithtr MeNally or McMahon, were arrested in <;nre yesterday and brought to Inverc-artrill to answer charges of obtaining good-? and money by means cf valueless cheque?. It is understood that the couple reside in either Dunedin or Kaitangata. Tiip-e vi-itors descended upon Inverts rgili people on Friday, ostensibly to o-pt r>onie cheap money cm! J.'"<xW, Tlicir schemes failed, however. the lui.-iiu— men who accepted their! cheque* |~r i a Dunedin bank) becoming I siispipiouf and wasting no time in discovering the fraud. The i-lit'"|iiea issued totalled in all fti")O. Tliey were it?Mied for the purchase of a piano, a gramophone, f2OO | worth ui furniture and a deposit on a ] hou«r\ ' I ■\ |>r<iininriit land aju-nt »a» first I pi'l'i'. ;mii| It «i- -i) i-'iininced of th>-| *'m-i-ri.y . in] p:u~;,,.|-:ty of I i.e. p;:ir tbat ■ 1"' »;■' : .1 tl.fin 'ru-.wiil thu town ' *i»'''i ; t ■ mi to pnrcliiisc goods and, «a*ii (hc<|ues to their heart's delight- i They dejiarted for Dunedin by the first train yesterday, but Mere «|iprab«aA«d •t Gore, an 4 will appear before the I Police Court to-morrow morning. *