WRESTLER IN COURT

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 33, 2 November 1934, Page 13

WRESTLER IN COURT

Companion on American Trip

SIGNATURE ON PASSPORT By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, November 1. Unable to sail with a lady friend for America to fulfil wrestling engagements there because of his arrest by a detective, Meynell Blomfield. aged 20. appeared in the Magistrate’s Court today charged with attempting to obtain a passport by a false pretence that the signature “L. Blomfield” was his wife’s. Lily May Balenzuela, aged 24, was charged with making a false passport declaration. The evidence showed that Blomfleic* had been separated from his wife for five years, and that he was paying her £2/10/- maintenance, which was paid up. He had a five months’ wrestling contract in America, and admitted that he proposed taking his lady friend with him. and that to simplify their entry to America he described her as his wife to overcome the difficulty of finding the necessary 1000 dollars bond. He said be had no intention of evading maintenance payments, and had entered into a bond of £2OO that the payments would be kept up durlug his absence.

The Magistrate (Mr. F. K. Hunt), who expressed the opinion that there was no reason why the young woman should not call herself L. Blomfield if she wished, said that there was no need to deal with the case too strictly. He reduced the charge to one of attempted false pretences, and fined Blomfield £2. The woman was convicted and discharged on payment of £B/5/- for the wife's expenses as a witness.