CHARGED WITH DECEPTION

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10087, 28 September 1918, Page 2

CHARGED WITH DECEPTION

A RESERVIST AKD SIS CHILD.

Press Association. DANNBVIEKE, September 27. A somewhat unusual case was heard before Mr Dyer, S.M., in which Sydney M. Mead was charged with wilfully deceiving the Government Statistician respecting the number 'of his children. Mead first save the number as three, and subsequently four. Investigations elicited the fact that he hadthree legitimate children and one ille. gitimate child. Regarding the lastnamed, the defendant alleged it had been taken bv his wife to be brought up as "Hie twin brother of her last born child, both legitimato and illegitimata having arrived about the same time. Defendant, however, was not supporting his wife an§ three legitimate children, but was living with another woman. He tlad now been put into Class A of the Second Division. He contended that He had acted in all good faith, being of opinion that the illegitimate cbild had be» i legally adopted. Ho was fined £lO. in default two months' imprisonment. The magistrate informed defendant that he was living like a beast.