FRAUD ADMITTED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23748, 30 August 1940, Page 7

FRAUD ADMITTED

ENGINEER SENT TO PRISON Reference, to maintenance problem| due to a bigamous marriage was made by counsel when Clai>de Albert Taylor, engineer, aged 36 (Mr. Aekins), admitted a charge of false pretences when lie appeared in the Police Court yesterday. Detective-Sergeant Walsh said accused was temporarily employed by the New Zealand Institute of Technology last February, and obtained an electric motor valued at £4 10s from Leonard William Baguley on the pretence that it was for his employers. Instead, he sold it without authority to a city firm for its full value. "He has been before tho Court on a number of occasions and was treated leniently for former false pretences," said Mr. Walsh. *"He has also served a term of imprisonment for bigamy." Mr. Aekins said it was not a case of a man squandering the money he obtained. It was used to meet a really pressing demand for maintenance. The acting-maintenance officer, Mr. C. E. Maxted, said accused had to maintain his wife and four children, and there wore complications associated with the bigamous marriage. "The offence was deliberate, and took a long time to be discovered," said Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M. "I must show accused he cannot do this sort of thing." Accused was sentenced to a month's imprisonment.