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MANY FRAUD CHARGES, Per Press Association.
INVEECAEGILL, Last Night. A middle-aged man appeared in the Police Court this morning to faeo a charge that on May 9, at Winton, with inlont to defraud by representing that he was a representative of the New Zealand Pictorial News, ho did obtain from John Gullick, the sum of 12/G. Detective-Sergeant Hewitt said that tho police had been getting complaints from all over Southland, and there would probably bo a long list of charges against him. There were in tho vicinity of 12 or 14 complaints. The police were informed that accused was identical with a man in Auckland, against whom charges of a similar nature were ponding. Tho Detective Sergeant had no doubt in his own mind about tho matter, and if the information of tho police was correct, accused had travelled from one end of New Zealand to the other, taking people down.
The magistrate granted a remand until July 2, and ordered his name to be suppressed.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6945, 26 June 1929, Page 6
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