ROGUE ROBS WIDOW
MAGISTRATE’S INDIGNATION. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND. October 29. “I won’t sentence him to-day, in the mood I am in. I might give him too much,” said Magistrate Hunt, in remanding until to-morrow, Archie Victor Rudge, 41, salesman, who appeared on charges of obtaining £5O from a widow by fraud, stealing a watch and chain, and attempting to obtain £5O from a boarder in her house. Accused was arrested in, and extradieted from Sydney, on a charge of stealing a promissory note fox 1 ' £BO. After hearing the evidence, Mr Hunt said the accused was a heartless rogue, who robbed a struggling widow who actually borrowed money to lend to him. Accused’s counsel said the woman was prepared to let him go free if he made restitution. Mr Hunt: Do you .think I would let a blackguard like that go free? He then made the statement quoted in the opening sentence.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 October 1931, Page 10
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