A CURIOUS FRAUD.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 168, 4 September 1886, Page 3

A CURIOUS FRAUD.

Th& Melbourne .d^tectives^jbave been buiy for; Bo!^m&e^^ fa than who 12 months-ago-perpetrated a'" dleve»^*iraiia^onf 4thes>Sßank^ it.of .JSejift 'Sbutli^AVales?oMelhourne.mxlt',liß; alleged ,7, ftfocordiagn to,ithe'i?-^JAitguf^Juthat ./.soms „ T>ifad&;about itlie Mmidtile^ofi .jjyear, ,j» 7 fon.« the -bank i.was.fii€(nti';t^ t 9,, 7 f'JVtr John Dunn, a'ddreseedo to 1 the,, Mel^' 0 bourrieffrato Offic'er>eJiTh^letter);^wa^^i^' HVeredt inadvertentLyitb,?aiman>wiio\gayft,hia riame'*aB f Johri>Dunb,Who< badrvpeeq, 7n7 n ataying,' atf>the PSRoBetoi. Australia f Hotel/ y King -street. -1.? »This?, man - (presented the, r Jetter:at,the"batfk,Mandi.demandedleash for v, 'it, but was told that it would be necessary.;' to ,' bring- someone'.!to^identify him., j He * 'broughtMrEnrightotof jthe Rose of Aua,--" tralia Hotel,*whotteßtified'that he.knew him las JohnVDunri,*aY»d> the^cash ffor the /letter?;' was handed ,?bveru.'to^th'e iman.- < The^ fadt -that/ 'thermoney's'had^-.been^^paid, Js to; the wrong man was not discovered/-..* Until the' Benders of ■ the /letter ascertained ' tbat.tWperaon-rto) whom ittwa's addressed! 2 had died. An application iwasjmade fora^ , return-of the letter,<.ibut;a< reptyt,waa Bent bapk to tho eflFect th"at it had beonj/ honoured., (a The, detectives who wore cqm- / hiunicate^.witK'have thai) 'the, Jo'lin'' Diinn,^ who; received money waa em-",' played as ajSte^a^on Tan'intercolonial' steamer. It, is. expected) that 'he J,is siifl"' somewhere in the.coloniefl. '"" "l '"' "J" J '