CAREER OF FRAUD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 8 April 1908, Page 8

CAREER OF FRAUD.

OBLIGING UNCLE'S LEGACY OF

£100,000.

An extraordinary story of a career of fraud was told at the Old Bailey, when Roderick Logan Rennie, thirty-three, residing in Victoria avenue, Surbiton, pleaded guilty to charges of incurring debts by false pretences and of forging a receipt for £1000. Mr R. D. Muir said that the receipt for £1000 ' was forged in the name of a gentleman with whom Rennie had been at school as a boy v He purported to be a- vendor of motor cars, and in order to get advertisements inserted without paying for them he got a notice put in a. Sussex, :paper that a rioh uncle in New.. Zealand had died, leaving .him £100,000. On. his ,cards he described himself as. Captain W. B. Ronnie, of the 7th Dragoon Guards. There was a. Captain Rennie in the Army, and it was on that gentleman, nvhen he returned , from India, being confronted by a' number of people who said lie owed .them money, -that the matter was put in the hands of the police. As a youth the- prisoner was dis-. missed by his employers at Brighton for stealing postal. orders^ In 3L&91 ne> went to Cooper's High- Schools as "assistant master, and subsequently to Yarmouth to ! fill a. similar post, but was dismissed from both, from Cooper's Hill on accusations of dishonesty, and from Yarmouth for the. way in which he treated- the pupils.- In 1896 s he was at Malton, in Yorkshire, and in the following year got married. ' In 1898 he opened a school at the Rectory, Castleford, but became a bankrupt. He next swindled some people, out of £200 in connection with.an'es- ' tablishment called Hollo way ( College. From Holloway he went to Crewkerne, and got an appointment as headmaster on forged references. The Recorder sentenced him to thre-j years' penal servitude. ~ ~<- Mr.Gv P. Wake, who will be a .can: dictate Jar the Egmont seat, has an advertisenienit .appearing^ to-day of interest; to the electors. ' .' TWO SOVEREIGN REMEDIES.' ; , The fWwias. Sand«r- and' Soils' oorV t ojatile Ew»lynti l^rtrAct* vr««" nroved l.j experts at the Soprani*^vnrt of Victoria to possess 'curative^ prpt^r£i«~i>Wnlii»Tljits own. and -to be »hw>iute}y;Mle<'effec ti7e, and retfabl,e. TVrp?o*i*» «^M»ot *st gwjvafce yo*w complaint by the iwe'of on* of tb* many, crude encaivtrtm oil* which are how pai'mpd. of! aa "Extractf." and from the we, of wnirh » death baa. b"»»n reported recently, but insist npoo,-Hb« genuine Sffnder and Sons' Exwalypti.E^ tract, am? rejp^fc all other*. For wrinkles, sunburn, pimples. hUrU beads freckles, cracked hand*. dTV k.m Inflamed skin uss Sander and 8011? Snperba Skin Food. N9 l«iy ahoaM