CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD
MAN REMANDED TO WELLINGTON ALLEGED COMPANION WAS BROUGHT BEFORE NELSON COURT [United Press Association] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Alleging that in conspiracy with another he had defrauded Hartley Roy Sellars of sums amounting to over £6OOO, the police asked that Gordon Percy Aston, engineer, aged 39 be remanded to appear in Wellington to-mor-row when Aston appeared in Court today. Aston was charged that between 1937 and 193 he conspired with Harvey Maitland Chrystall be deficit to defraud Sellars of divers sums totalling £6465. Counsel for accused asked for a remand to Christchurch for two or three days, saying that Aston had four or five companies operating in the South Island and wanted to put his business in order. He was not asking for bail.
The police said that Chrystall had been arrested in Nelson and would be appearing in Wellington to-morrow and they wished them to be charged together.
The Magistrate granted a remand to Wellington.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 January 1940, Page 6
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