A MOTOR DEAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 29 October 1921, Page 7

A MOTOR DEAL

EXTENSIVIO F 8 AI T .D A EEEG E 1)

.fraud on an exti'ii-ive sea to in connection with a motor deal was alleged against a man named Gerrard (. orvissiano. who appeared before Air !•'. K. Hunt, 5.. M., in the Magistrate's Court ai Wellington on. \\ i ■ 1 1 11 • ■ I- 1 \ aiternomi. C'orvisslano de-a !.)i\l ou the eharge-shoei as a I‘ reneh a. hi. ailf'l Ids occupation was give" as Mail of an engineer. Me "'.-is stated ip he 3 1 wars of asm.

The charm's ;ij,;tinst iAmei;iiin won- :;s follow I) Tim- .m Dv Angus., IP2I, ai Hastings, he made a fa Bp document, to wit, a promi'-sory note for £SOO, purporting i,o ho mpnod Tv 8. Renata. knowing it to he u -e and with intent that a- slumld he actod, upon as genuine; same l ''algO in respect C) a nolo for IMtA) : ; dj sanecharge- in respect to t> " in '' h’o - : ( 1 1 that or, Ist Amumi. W-d- no mad.' a false document, a hire rent rare aureemeni for the sale ci a" ''igh I '-. limit'V motor-ear. purport mg to he sitin'..l hv Renata. knowing dm same to ho false; and (o) that on lldh duly, IP-'I, at AN'elliingum. witii intent to defraud hv falsely representing he was tile sole owner or a Cole motor-car destroyed hv lire on 3rd duly,, no flic oil)tnin from* the British Trades- Insurance Company the stun ol -Co<o. Chief .Detect,ive Kemp conducted Mm case for the police, anti Air -I. Seoti, reoreseiucd the accused. Chief Detective Kemp -aid that m April, 1921, accused entered into an agreement with a Air Carla ml to pmeParse a Cole car for £825, and [raid donosit. of ,C4O. Subsequently, tlm accused and Garland emored into a verba! agreement, that the accused should sell the oar, and should. _ keep any sum over £825 as his commission. Evidence would he called ijo show that before the verbal agreement was oni.'ied into the accused insured the ear for ,Clooo. On 3rd July the ear was dest roved by fire, -and nine days lately the a censed was paid the sum ol hot o hv tho insurance company. For the purpose of receiving tjhis money, _tne accused, said the Chief Oetecuve. made a declaration before n .Justice of tlie Peace that- he was the solo owner of the ear. Corvissiann also had an ontion over another car. Amur, fhe 10th Angus: the accused handed the “hire contract agreement,-' the subject of one of the charges, to Garland, also three hills for a totstl [amount! of £IOSO, alleged to have been siened hv Renata. These documents were forgeries ,the accused's object being loliido the fact that he had previous! v disposed of the ears I here avir nnlv one Native named Renata in Hastings. and ho would say that the signatures on tlVo documents were not his. . . r • The last case was taken lirsr. Iwdonee on the lines indicated G.v dm Chief Defective was given by hraneis L Garland, Frederick Desmond Arthur Stanley Clark, George lldi .)osoph Arm it. and Detective Nut tall. The accused nleaded not. guilty and was corn mitt ed to the Supreme Court for trial. ‘ The forger v charges wore then proceeded with.* Evidence was given by Francis !■• Garland, Edwin Alay, and T. llenaia, Corvissiann pleaded* nob guilty, re!served his defence, and was committed

to tlie Supreme Court for trial. Bail was refused.