TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21258, 12 February 1931, Page 13

TELEGRAMS.

(Pee: United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, February 11. Walter Ernest Brian Dunningham, solicitor, charged with aiding and abetting persons to make declarations which would amount to perjury if made on oath, in connection with the State Advances Office, was acquitted in the Auckland Supreme Court to-day. On a similar charge Samuel Thomas Baker, a carpenter, was found guilty and was remanded for sentence. WELLINGTON, February 11. Frederick Owen Murch, aged 18, who imposed on firms some time ago by giving bogus orders for cigarettes in the names of various shops, was before the magistrate to-day on charges of false pretences and was given two years in the Borstal' institution. Four young men named Cameron Mitchell. William Edward Ryan, William Roger Kells, and Edward Albert Napier were to-day found guilty by a jury of stealing £4 in money and a gold watch and chain, of a total of £2B. The prosecution alleged that the four accused had been drinking at various hotels during the afternoon of October 16 with Adam Shaw, and that shortly after 6 p.m. Shaw was hustled up an alleyway and robbed of the money and the articles mentioned in the charge. In the case of Ryan a recommendation for mercy was made. The prisoners were remanded for sentence.