FRAUD CHARGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 136, 11 June 1934, Page 8

FRAUD CHARGE.

ARREST IN AUSTRALIA

FAILURE OF PROCEEDINGS,

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

Tlic proceeding to have Charles Ernest Vickers, an Australian company promoter, extradited from Melbourne to Wellington, to face a charge of false pretences in connection with the Craftsman Manufacturing Company of New 'Zealand, Ltd., have been dismissed on a technical point by the Court in Melbourne, and Detective-Sergeant Jarrolil, of Wellington, who went to Melbourne to bring Vickers back, is returning alone on the Monowai, which arrives at Auckland this afternoon. The New Zealand police will decide the next step to lie taken when the detective-ser-geant returns and when information on the subject has been received from the Melbourne police.

Proceedings are in train for the extradition from London of Ernest Mabin Gilmour, a New Zealand company manager, also on a charge of false pretences in connection, with the Craftsman Manufacturing Company.

Vickers was arrested in Melbourne on a charge of false pretences in obtaining at Manaia £1000 from James John Patterson, dairy farmer,' by representing that the Craftsman Manufacturing Company of New Zealand, Ltd., had purchased the patent rights to a motor car headlamp reflector for New Zealand, and allegedly representing that the dies used to manufacture the reflector cost the New Zealand company £12,000.

Gilmour was arrested in London, charged with obtaining, in July, 1930, at Wellington, the sum of £200 .by means of a false pretence, namely, that the Craftsman Manufacturing Company posr sessed patent rights to a motor car headlight reflector, and that the Australian vendors were receiving shares in the New Zealand company, but no cash. Gilmour is alleged also to have represented that the New Zealand company had been selling 500 sets of reflectors a month since the company commenced operations in the Dominion.