MOTUEKA ARREST.
REMAND TO AUCKLAND.
FALSE PRETENCES ALLEGED.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
NELSON, Monday
Arrested in Riwaka, three miles from Motueka, early yesterday morning, following his disappearance from Auckland on March 8, Eric Stanley Watts, alias Stanley Bray, appeared in the Magistrate's Court at Motueka to-day. He was charged tliat 011 or about January I<, 1930. at Auckland, lie obtained the sum of £173 from Thomas Arthur Taylor by . means of a false pretence, namely, by falsely representing that lie was authorised by the Temperance and General Assurance Society, Limited, to sell a surrendered policy that was actually held for sale by the firm mentioned. whereas in fact no such policy existed.
Constable Smith said that the war rant had been issued from Auckland.
Accused was remanded to. appear at Auckland 011 Wednesday.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 197, 22 August 1939, Page 5
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