SYSTEMATIC FRAUD
ARREST AT GISBORNE. NEARLY ONE HUNDRED CHARGES. Per Press Association. GISBORNE, January 29. Allegations of systematic fraud throughout New Zealand, extended over six years., are made against a man whom the police have in custody on charges of forgery and false pretenoes, to three of which charges he has pleaded guilty. The police state that he has confessed respecting other cases. He operated in Masiterton, Wellington, Moirrins.ville, Matamata, Wanganui, Gisborne, and Auckland, and may be taken to oilier towns for identification. His favourite method, the police state, was to write out a cheque for an amount likely to be paid to a farm labourer, and drawn on a well-known estate -in the district. He would probably go to a hotel licensee or storekeeper on Saturday afternoon, or on a bank holiday, and give a fairly big order to avoid suspicion, and receive the balance in cash. Perhaps several of these valueless cheques would be tendered, and by Monday morning, when the banks opened, he would have disappeared. It is stated that there are nearly one hundred charge? of false pretenoes and forgery pending from various towns in the North Island.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11740, 30 January 1924, Page 5
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192SYSTEMATIC FRAUD New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11740, 30 January 1924, Page 5
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