MAN OF MANY NAMES
MONTH’3 GAOL FOR THEFT.
' CHARGE ALSO PENDING. An engineer, aged 36, named Frederick. Schuller, with five other aliases, appeared befenre Mr K. Page, S.M., ill the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, to answer a charge of stealing a motor-engine Valued at £6, the property of the Vacuum Gleaning Company, and with obtaining oredit for £2 6s, being rent, from Hanna Minih&n by representing that he was employed as kn engineer at the electric power-house. Chief-Detective Kemp Said that accused was employed by the Vacuum Gleaning Company when he stole the motor engine, find he sold it for £2 10s. He then left Wellington, and' returned under thi name of Mills. He went to board with "Mrs Minih&n, and told her that he was an engineer. After a couple Of weeks, when she asked him for ,the rent, .he said that there was Some difficulty about wages, and she allowed him credit. He would not have got‘credit if he had not represented that he was an engineer. He was convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on each charge, tlie terms' to be Concurrent. On a charge of stealing £3 6s in Auckland, and for obtaining a motorbicycle valued at £sl 10s by false pretences at Te Aroha, ho was remanded for a week.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12009, 11 December 1924, Page 5
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215MAN OF MANY NAMES New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12009, 11 December 1924, Page 5
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