A FRAUD
WONDERFUL CREDULITY. (By Telegraph —Per I‘ress Association) AUCKLAND, June 18. An astonishing tale of fraud nnu credulity was told at the Police Court, when Claude McLaughlin, 21, alias Claude Dolores, alias Dr. Claude Schneider, was charged with obtaining £92 by fraud, stealing £lO in cash and a typewriter, two charges of telling fortunes and intoxication in a car. Accused was arrested last week and remanded, but yesterday when he went to the police station to report he arrived in ia car drunk. The police said in January, an hotel (•waitress went to accused to have her fortune told. He told her she would bo lucky if} she invested. Hie was running the Rodeo Company, anc* he invited her to invest with him. She gave him altogether £92 including £SO for “stamp duty.” From another man lie borrowed a typewriter and immediately sold it. A tram conductor had his fortune told and gave accused two £5 notes, although lie had told the accused one of lids predictions was absolutely false. Accused pretended to burn the banknotes, but ’twas only a trick, The prosecuting detective concluded —He is a pure, unadulterated imposter of the worst type.
Counsel said accused would repay. Magistrate Hunt—Well ho won t be earning for twelve months.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1931, Page 5
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