ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES.
(PER PRESS ASSOOATnON.)
Chmstchurch, February 8. Dugald Paterson, a Christohurch sharebroker, and formerly a member of , the firm of Magnus, Paterson and Co., has been arrested on a charge of obtaining a cheque for £12 10s from Alfred J. Butcher, by representing that he had been authorised by the Leviathan Gold Dredging Company to collect deposits for preference shares, with intent. to defraud. He was remanded for a week.
MASTERTON INFANTICIDE CASE.
(PER FRHSS ASSOCIATION.* Mastbrton, February 8. Thomas Murcott and Kate Alexander, charged in connection with the alleged infanticide case, were committed for trial. Bail was allowed, Mnrcott himself in ;£2OO and two sureties of 41150 each ; the girl herself in £200 and two sureties of £100 each.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7383, 8 February 1902, Page 2
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122ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7383, 8 February 1902, Page 2
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