"BANK IMPOSTOR"
MAN WITH EDUCATION
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day,
Described by the police as a rank impostor, Henry Woyland Martin Powell, on several charges of fraud by means of valueless cheques, was sentenced on two charges to six. months' imprisonment, cumulative. Tho police, stated that the accused was apparently a man who had had a good education in England, and by that means imposed on professional and business men and stayed at the best hotels. He was employed on a sheep station at Albury, i South Canterbury. At Napier in 1928 lie was sentenced to nino months' imprisonment. On that occasion he had become associated with well-known ijlawkes Bay residents, and from a lady I there had received £200.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1930, Page 9
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