THIEF AND FORGER
PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE WOMAN’S NARROW ESCAPE. Per Press Association. THAMES. April 15. William E. Walker, cnarged with forging and uttering a pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence. He also pleaded guilty to the theft of two horses and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on each of the two charges. The evidence showed that he came , from Dunedin to Tairua and made tho acquaintance of two women. He rode wih one of the women to Puriri, where he sold his own horse. It appeared that ho proposed marriage to her, and they caime to Thames for the ceremony; but on the woman finding that he had sold her horse and her sister’s, she gave information to tho police, who arrested him. It was found that he was a married man. for whom a warrant had been issued at Dunedin for his failure to maintain two children.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12422, 16 April 1926, Page 7
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