HUSBAND'S ALLEGATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18324, 14 February 1923, Page 10

HUSBAND'S ALLEGATIONS.

RECENT AUCKLAND ARREST. CASE CALLED IN SYDNEY. At the Glebe Court, in Sydney, last week, before Mr. Jennings, S.M., Claude Stima Smith was charged with having stolen a rubber-tyred sulky and set of harness, valued at £25, the property of Frederick John Andrews, Glebe Point, ■while Jane Andrews was charged with having stolen £250 in money, three diamond rings, one fur coat, a suit of clothes, four portmanteaux, and other articles, valued in all at £350, also the property of Frederick John Andrews. Sergeant Leonard said that Andrews was the wife of the owner of the goods. Both* defendants had been arrested in Auckland, but as a material witness was at Yanco, a remand was desired. Mr. Neville Montagu, who appeared for the defence, said that the defendants had a complete answer to the charge. The prosecutor has entertained an unreasonable suspicion against the defendants as Smith, who had previously been working for him, had gone to New Zealand by the same boat as Mrs. Andrews. The amount of £250 was purely imaginary, and had merely been • mentioned for the purposes of! the extradition proceedings, while the other articles referred to in the charge against r her were her own property. She had been arrested at, her :-i brother's home in Auckland, and he (her brother) had come over to Sydney with her. " Sergeant ~ Leonard: Besides being on the same boat, Smith was under a fictitious name. The prosecutor alleges that' they conspired to take his money &nd property, and get away together. A remand until February 13 was granted. -."-'■ ■-."'ivr. ■ .:. j= .;