SELLING A LORRY
FALSE PRETENCES ALLEGED(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January After hearing evidence in respect of three charges of obtaining money by false pretences, brought against William Madison Alt, motor engineer, formerly of Drury and Papakura, and now believed to be in Honolulu, Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court, granted an application for a warrant to give legal, authority for him to be brought to Auckland. The first charge was of obtaining by false pretences £432 from Basil Buddle, as agent for the New Zealand Guarantee Corporation Limited (Wellington). Buddle, in evidence, said he advanced £432 to Alt, whom he knew previously, on his representation that he had sold (t motor lorry to Thomas Robertson, of Papakura. It subsequently transpired that no sale had been made, and no such truck as the one mentioned existed. It, was stated that Alt left Auckland by the Aorangi on December 30. ' Evidence regarding two similar charges was also given.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 January 1928, Page 7
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