POLICE OPPOSE BAIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23083, 8 January 1937, Page 9

POLICE OPPOSE BAIL

A JOURNALIST CHARGED ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD (Per United Press Association) HAMILTON, Jan. 7. "We consider that it would be unjust for a person to go bail for this man. He has no stake in the country, and the evidence will show that these offences were committed to get him out of the country after cheating his aunt for all she had," declared Detective A. J. White, in the Police Court to-day, when a- journalist named Lawrence Vivian Fairhall, aged 22, applied for bail. ~, , Fairhall was charged with causing two Hamilton business men to act upon cheques as if they were genuine when he knew them to be forged and invalid. It was alleged that by these offences on October 3, 1935, he secured £23 from J. Varney and £25 from N. H. Hooker. Opposing the application for bail, Detective White said that Fairhall had travelled to Australia under an assumed name. Returning to New Zealand as a stowaway on the Awatea, he was arrested in Wellington and charged with the present offences for which a warrant had been issued against him. If he were allowed his freedom there was nothing to prevent him from embarking on another trip across the Tasman. Fairhall denied having absconded, and said that he wanted his freedom to prepare his defence. He was well known in Hamilton. Detective White: And well-known in Australia too! Fairhall was remanded to appear at Hamilton on Monday.