FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE
INSURANCE AGENT ARRESTED. [per press association.] AUCKLAND, August 20. Two constables from Motueka went to a fruit farm about two and a-half miles from the township early this morning and arrested Eric Stanley Watts, 35, an insurance agent, who disappeared from Auckland on the afternoon of March 10. Watts admitted his identity. He will appear at the Motueka Police Court on a false pretences charge, before he is brought to Auckland. The mysterious disappearance of Watts has occupied the close attention of Detective Slater throughout the past five months. Watts’ car was found on Saturday, March 11, in a parking area between the Queen’s Wharf and Prince’s Wharf. He had not been seen since the previous Wednesday, March 8. when lie left the office where he was employed' to keep a business appointment at Waimauku. Tn the car were found Watt’s hat and some insurance documents, but nothing to indicate he had met with an accident.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 August 1939, Page 5
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