ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18217, 10 October 1922, Page 5

ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCE.

" COLLECTOR " FOR BLIND.

KEMAND ON TWO C^AEGES. A charge of having obtained 1.1 from W. H. Stevens at Paparoa on October 2 by falsely representing that he was an authorised collector for the Jubilee Institute rfoi.* the Blind, wae preferred against George Fraylor (Mr. Singer), aged 42, in the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. W. Poyhton, S.M. Accused was further charged with being a rogue and vagabond within the meaning of the Police Offences Act, in that at Wairere, on October 4, he. imposed on Frederick Gibbs, a farmer, with a view to obtaining money by falsely repreaentinc that he was a duly authorised collector on bebali of the. Jubilee. Institute for the Blind. Counsel said that accused had been .arrested at Mauneaturoto and liad been brought to Auckland so that he could obtain bail. Mr. Singer asked that reasonable bail be allowed. Chief-Detective McHveney opposed bail. He said that this man .had gene round the Northern districts saying he was an authorised collector for the institute, and he had met- with considerable success. A book found in his possession when arrested showed, if correctly kept,- that _■he had collected £167. When questioned accused had at first refused to give his name, and had later given it as Edgar Calvert. Counsel said i'-he book 'might not be correct., and the-man might not have collected all the amounts entered in it. Mr,... Singer suggested that, of-£2SO world be. ... ~ - The' magistrate s<iid' "baiL fehould be substantia* and fixed *it at' £300; Ac- v cused was remanded for a week.' - A land agent, Wvho acted as 6urity for accused, said he had known accused Tor two years. In reply to the chief defective, the bondsman said he first met accused while on a holiday trip to. Australia. Accused was then going under the ■name -.of E. Calvert, and' fne bondsman understood he was a journalist;