ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES
ACCUSED TO BE BROUGHT BACK (United Press Association! ■ v AUCKLAND, 12th January. After hearing evidence in respect! of three charges of obtaining money by false pretences brought against William Madison Alt, a motor engineer, formerly of Drury and Papakura and now believed to be in Honolulu, Mr I<. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, granted an application for a warrant to give legal authority for .him to be brought to Auckland. The first charge was of obtaining by false pretences £432 frpm Basil Buddie, as agent for the New Zealand Guarantee Corporation, Limited, Wellington. Buddie, in evidence, said he advanced £432 to Alt, whom he knew previously, on his representation that he had sold a. motor lorry to Thomas Robertson, of Papakura. It subsequently transpired no sale, had been made, and no such truck as the one mentioned existed. It was stated Alt left Auckland by the Aorangi oil 20th December. Evidence "regarding two further similar charges was also given.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 January 1928, Page 11
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