CREDIT BY FRAUD

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17173, 1 February 1930, Page 2

CREDIT BY FRAUD

ill? -* Mi-t; "■ 1 . yiv-w*, toASES IN HASTINGS -i I: MAN AND -WIFE .CONVICTED ~ 'Four months’ imprisonment for then piband, and two, years’ probation l for be wife were ;the sentences imposed by lirl A. M. Mowlem, 8.M., in the HastOgs Police Court on Robert Mason Rus*ll. alias Forbes. Rm<?> -alias fldwin Finis Goodwin, and his wife, |susrwise known as Muriel Qlive. .Forbes eid, '-who were charged that between Ctober l and October 21, they did, in tern-ring a debt of £lB 18s with Mrs. I. -A, K. McConnell for board, obtainliedit by means of fraud. Russell,ad-; litted the charge, but Mrs, E'ussoll loaded not guilty. detective Farquharson prosecuted, and ; Doff appeared for the accused. Mrs. McConnell, lato proprietress of ; § Albert Hotel stated that tht> ackacd booked in on September - ond;| ■wTiillniff^' morning they said they ■tire ■ staying- some length of time as had spld his, Jfaxijg,, at Gtobcirpe; I id'bought a 500 acre,,block; ,at ( . m. r Later, witness, asked the Me-jl ts to settle their account, apd Mie ecused then said .that, he Juicl had jam from Gisborne in connection is farm and would have to lea vie ately for a tew days. He prfh to pay the account on,his#;. reBe left tfie hotel for a- dan hhd a' Vhd on hia reton,'informed witm* - "■< # *awy*n wu Ujsborne was | money to him. In the meantime, pUsselt 'Secured * a furnished s house, she returned to the,, hotel, and pod where her husband was. She s. was on his way to pay the aeRussell did net .call at. the hotel 1 No'vember witness called-at RusP'a louse. He said ho had been to injdrne, hat was very disappointed as is lawyer had loaned, all his money to pother man' to bay sheep witlj. W.it;, ess did not believe this statement and Russell so, also that she wanted money immediately. Russell profd to.pay the following day - jbuij, d i,d; do so, nor- did he attenipt io make settlement, or offer 4 any explanation, ness understood that , the. accused b married and did have the money, fe was why she allowed them to stop gKvhe house. llJßvidence for the prosecution was ■yen also by Mildred Bain, keeper at the hotel, Kpthleeji, Nugent, ipflfflrk in the hotel, and Bettiue Metinell, daughter of the informant, whe Hated that Mrs. Russell showed her, a pegram which .purported to .statq:; Fjj&OO transferred free of exchange L»m Gisborne to Hastings,’’ and was fped “Nolan.” s . , pother witness, Sidney J., A, Hickafg land salesman, stated that Dalgety B Co., Ltd., the firm he was associted with, wore the sole agepts for the: - estate. Ally sales'made in re-.' pact to that estate he would be acipinted with To hia.. knowledge no ile had been made in respect to. the last ibdivisioc. Witness did “not know the tenused, nor had he had any transacts* with either of them. ?A?ter ; ..the evidence of Constable Alsop id Senior-Sergeant Dempsey had been Kd> Duff contended for the deled that there -was insufficient, evidbs to prove that there had been an l|»pt to defraud m‘ McConnell. He Ijted out th.ai r i% Bussells wjjg*. aptu-, iy in the hotel aiid had boarded a Kt there before the alleged,: state- 1 infs were made. This, counsel con* nded, indicated that it Was not;the : Jemeffis that induced Mis JlcConil to give credit, for credit had alidv been gipen. Ho unoteA seyerai, Eotafcies in support of hm contention, ■ prepended to point ...out ..aeppml irin the evidence tendered by ■•prosecution. -■ kWnnsel did not call any evidence on half of the accused. . , lvremarked that the deBilhhd not given arty evidence, and dbalt with points of law. There B nothing to contradict the tacts pd out , % t the.; el for the detente asked that those lisfewfeich' were : not denied f .sdiQiud dg regarded., Hotelkeepers were hot in irge of oharitahlo institutions, and it ■ unreasonable to expect that they d give credit. tiptops satisfied n? patrons were boria fide. Russell id bo convicted. _ • \A [jbe detective mentioned lhat Russell Br.l.pievions, convictions of fatoa..pre-‘ I ..the magistrate sentenced months’ Imprisonment, to Mrs,, Bussell, Mr. Duff (hit to the fact that in al! jjipffitTyras 'given to ,the„ hus-j was the usual procedure. Irate: X am quite aware off jwjiy »he.will escape gaol. Russell, the magistrate said 1, had as big a hand in the eir husband, whom she had srtainly a natural pi-ocednre I but bpth knew , that they] ing credit by fraud. She,, bd convicted. a longer list than, her hasHetective Farquliarson. sing the fist of previous conWorship said: “When will o accused: From now on, ip: You people Jet me down it J in chary about giving : . You have had five years’ j

probation, already. “Ypur .baby will save you,” declared the magistrate. “Two years’ probation.'' ' ,