"MUGS" IN AUCKLAND
"HEAPS OP THEM''
By Telegraph.-Special to "Tho Mail.")
AUCKLAND, 2flth April. According to Senior Detective Hammond there are heaps of "mugs" in Auckland. A young man, John Henry [nine, was before Mr V. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court this morning upon i charge of having failed to make restitution of £4O fraudulcntlv obtained from Walter A. McCarthv on 2f>lh August last year. This was rather a mean case, said the detective. Irvine advertised that he had a good business for sale for £SO and wanted a partner. When he got the money he would clear out, of course. There was no business "It's the easiest way of getting monev that 1 know of. A man only has to rent an office for 10/- a week, advertise for i partner, and wine "mug" w jh n [. ways come along and hand over his money. It's like getting monev from Home.' Irvine, who is at 'present serving a sentence, was convicted and discharged.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 30 April 1927, Page 4
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