"AN ORDINARY FRAUD"
EIGHT MONTHS IN PRISON
(Jiy Telegraph..—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Said to'be'tlic son. of an Argentine millionaire, Walter Bcnliow Valdiuiur, a. wak'.smaii, aged 38, alias Walter Lucieu <lc li'crdi'uand, was sent 1o pviaon for eight months on. two of fourteen charges of obtaining flll'6 in. cash and £21 in good-s from various persons by reprcHontiTig that ho was receiving £40,000 from his father's Argentinian I estate. Counsel said that Valdimar'a creditors i knew him for liiimy years, and wore aware that his father was a wealthy man. The Magistrate (Mr. F. K. Hunt), in refusing probation, said it was no use mentioning restitution, as the people whom Valdimar had defrauded would not got paid. Ho was just an ordinary fraud going about the country. .
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 144, 16 December 1930, Page 13
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