GAOL FOR IMPOSTOR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22192, 20 August 1935, Page 10

GAOL FOR IMPOSTOR

AUCKLAND GIRL DEFRAUDED SIX MONTHS' HARD LABOUR [llY telegraph—OWN correspondent] I'ALMEHSTON NOIITH, Monday How a man from Te Awamutu with a long and varied criminal record engaged a girl as housekeeper in Auckland and induced her to accompany him on a wandering journey, which was terminated at Levin by tho police, was told in the Magistrate's Court at Levin to-day. Constable Burrell said that accused went to Auckland and advertised for a housekeeper, saying that he had a sheep farm in the Waikato. As a result of the advertisement he interviewed a girl and engaged her. When leaving the Auckland station for Hamilton the man borrowed £1 from the girl for fares. At Hamilton he said he could not cash a cheque, because he was not known, and he obtained a further 10s from the girl. After breakfast the next morning the accused left the girl, saying that he wished to see his solicitor, but ho returned to say that he had received word that two members of his family had been injured in a motor accident, and that lie was therefore compelled to go to the South Island to mjyiage his mother's farm. The girl said that she would go to stay with her relatives at Putaruru. The accused followed her a week later and suggested that, at there was too much work on his mother's farm, the girl and a married couple, with whom she was staj-ing, should accompany him. They all left by car. but the arrest of the accused at Levin on Saturday completed the episode. The accused, Hector James Macdonald, was sentenced on each of two counts to three months' imprisonment with hard the sentences to be cumulative.