ALLEGED FRAUD.
ARREST OF A WELLINGTON
CITIZEN
At tlie Magistrate’s Court on Saturday, Walter Milles Phillips, the Wellington manager of the Imperial Insurance Company, -was brought before Dr McArthur, S.M., and charged that he did, on cr about March 15, 1899, commit theft of a sum of £4oo Is, momeys of the Imperial Insurance Company.
Inspector Pender informed the Ben eh that the ca-se appeared to him to be one of deliberate fraud. If the facts presented to him were correct, the case would be that accused had got up s. bogus fire, and by means of false representations bearing thereupon, had defrauded the Imperial Insurance Company, of which he was manager, of the sum of money mentioned, in the charge. Inspector Pender told the B®nch h® was not prepared to tender evidence at once, as tne general manager of the company had only arrived from jVlc-i----bourne the previous day. His Worship remanded the accused until Friday next, and fixed bail- in two sureties of £SO. and accused’s own bone of £IOO, but later in the day, on the application of Inspector Pender, raised the amount of the sureties’ bail to £IOO in each instance.
The grounds cf offence as submitted to the police are that accused represented to the directors of the Imperial Insurance Company that a fire had occurred in Christchurch whereby a hotisi. was destroyed over whieh the company had a risk of £400; and tha'* Phillips drew that amount from the directors to recoup an alleged disbursement by him on the policy. He sen! papers apparently showing proof of loss and certifying to receipt from him by the owner of the house of the insur ance money. The evidence of good faith was so circumstantial that no suspicion was entertained until some time recently, when a person who had become cognisant of certain alleged variations from fact in accused’s assertions, made statements to the police which led to accused being shadowed,, the result being that he was arrested at eight o’clock on Saturday morning, soon after his arrival from Christchurch.*
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1509, 31 January 1901, Page 19
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344ALLEGED FRAUD. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1509, 31 January 1901, Page 19
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