FALSE PRETENCES
NEW ZEALANDER’S FRAUDS IN ENGLAND
London, February 11. The Bow Street Magistrate remanded for medical examination a New Zealander, Alfred Daniel Walton, who, in the name of James Desmond, pleaded guilty to obtaining money by false pretences from Miss Crichton imrie, New Zealand proprietress of a London tearoom.
A detective gave evidence that the New Zealand office was inundated with complaints of Walton’s victims, from whom he had obtained money by telling a tale of a lost wallet.
Walton is aged 51, and was formerly a commercial traveller in New Zealand, Melbourne, and Sydney. He was previously convicted at Auckland, Dunedin, and Napier, and four times in England since 1921. The prisoner’s brother came from America and offered to maintain him. He pleaded that a serious illness must have affected the prisoner’s mind. —Sydney “Sun” Cable.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 119, 13 February 1926, Page 9
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138FALSE PRETENCES Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 119, 13 February 1926, Page 9
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