WRESTLER IN COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22398, 20 October 1934, Page 14

WRESTLER IN COURT

TWO CHARGES PREFERRED REMAND GRANTED ON BAIL. (Peb United Pbess association.) AUCKLAND. October 19. The professional wrestler Maynell Blomfield, or Walter Browning, aged 29, appeared in the Police Court to-day to face two charges. It was alleged that the defendant on or about Wednesday at Auckland, being a person against whom a maintenance order had been made, attempted to leave New Zealand with intent to make default in obeying the order, and, secondly, on September 27 at Auckland knowing a certain document—a declaration to be made by the applicant for a passport and purporting to be signed by L. Blomfield to be forged—attempted to cause Gwendoline Frances Tattersall to act upon it as. if it were genuine. The defendant was remanded by consent until November 1. Bail was fixed at £2OO.

Lily May Balenzuela, spinster, unemployed, was charged that on or about September 26 at Auckland she did knowingly make a false document —a declaration to be made by an applicant for a passport purporting to be signed by L. Blomfield —with intention that it should be acted upon as genuine. The defendant was also remanded by consent until November 1, bail being fixed at £2OO.