MOTOR FRAUDS ALLEGED
SIX MEN BEFORE COURT.
WIDESPREAD INQUIRIES
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, To-day. Six men who had been arrested between January 23 and February S appeared in the Police Court to-day. They were William Kenneth Daniels, aged 26, storeman ; John Edward O’Donnell, aged 31, fruiterer; Alfred Ernest Hay, aged 30, motor dealer; Norman Henry Fraser, aged 36; Oscar Herbert. Johnson, aged 44, clerk, and Alexander Frederick Murray, aged 33. a. mechanic.
Murray was charged with conspiring with Hay and Fraser to defraud the North Island Motor Union Mutual Insurance Company of £62 9s 6d, Daniels with making false documents, O’Donnell with, making a false hirepurchase agreement. Hay with forgery and Fraser and Johnson with making false hire-purchase, agreements. In reply to counsel, the prosecutor said the case would be heard on March 7, as, owing to the far-reaching effect of these eases, the inquiry would take some time.
All the men were remanded. Bail was renewed.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 21 February 1935, Page 6
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