INGENIOUS FRAUD
THREE MEN IN COURT. AUCKLAND, March 5. An ingenious fraud was revealed at the Police Court, when three young men admitted making a false document purporting to be a letter from London solicitors. They took a letterhead, printed by a «eity linn, and had typed on it a letter purporting to inform the recipient that he had been bequeathed £250 in cash and an annuity of £IOB. On this a city loan company, after reference to a solicitor, advanced £2o. They tried the same trick with another loan company, which also referred the matter to a solicitor. The latter detected the fraud and rang the police. Athol Henry Deighton, aged 30, was committed to the Borstal for three years; William Arthur Gordine, aged '.:,. was sentenced to 18 months' gaol, i.ad Rupert George Bell, aged 21, was j ordered two years' probation.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 74, 6 March 1931, Page 6
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143INGENIOUS FRAUD Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 74, 6 March 1931, Page 6
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