CREDIT BY FRAUD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 236, 4 October 1940, Page 9

CREDIT BY FRAUD.

LONG TAXI RIDES.

TWO VALUELESS CHEQUES/

. The story of how John Hartland Pierson, salesman, aged 31, obtained a motor car, and on two occasions hired taxicabs, wae driven on a return trip from Auckland to Taumarunui, and again from Auckland to Taumarunui, and how in each instance a valueless cheque was tendered, was told in the Police Court yesterday afternoon before Mr. J. Morling, S.M.

Pierson was charged with obtaining a car valued at £08 17/5 by means of a false pretence, and obtaining by fraud credit for amounts of £15 and £20. Detective-Sergeant Aplin prosecuted. Pierson was not represented by counsel.

Evidence showed that on August 30 Pierson engaged Albert Edwin Perry, taxi-driver, to drive him to National Park. He was accompanied by a man and a woman, and on arrival at Tauback, and the woman wrote a cheque for £15, signing it A. I. Chapman. The cheque was dishonoured by the bank.

On September 6 Pierson engaged another taxi-driver, Harold Victor Hamilton, to. drive him and the woman from Auckland to Taumarunui and back, end the woman wrote a creque for £20 in payment for the trip. This cheque also was returned by the bank. On September 13 accused, accompanied by Mrs. Chapman, whom he introduced a 5 z? 18 . ® lster * purchased a car for £68 17/5 from the Auckland Motor Company, payment being made by a cheque written by Mrs. Chapman. This cheque proved to be valueless. , Detective W. Cromwell, who arrested ™. r f n ' re » d * signed statement in which he said he knew at the time Mrs. Chapmen issued the cheques that there was no money in the bank to meet them. However, he had told her that he had deposited £200 to her credit, and it was on this representation that she made out the cheques. He had also represented that he was a surveyor employed by the Marton Sash and Door Company., When the car was purchased he gave hurnaine U3 Graub, and to one Wo!? Xl -dnvers he gave hie name as ilart. He subsequently sold the car for x,3a.

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