PARENTS APPROACHED

Evening Star, Issue 22191, 20 November 1935, Page 2

PARENTS APPROACHED

UNUSUAL FALSE PRETENCE CHARGE [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, November 19. An alleged attempt to obtain £6O from the parents of a Civil servant who was under arrest for theft, by representing that there was an additional shortage in the accounts of his department, was the substance of a charge brought in tho Magistrate’s Court today against a salesman, William Alexander Welsh. He pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial.

William Baker, a postal employee, was at the time of the alleged false pretence under arrest on a charge of theft, and it was alleged that Welsh visited tho parents of Baker, William Leslie Baker, his father, and Sadie Baker, his mother, saying that he, Welsh, had received a letter from a friend in the department stating that a further deficiency of £6O in Baker’s accounts had been discovered, but that if £6O were found in a day or two

nothing more need be heard of it. Me W. L. Baker consulted a solicitor, and the police were later informed. Welsh would not disclose the name of the writer of the letter, it was stated. Evidence was given by officers of the 'department stating that there was no additional deficiency of- £01).