BROTHERS’ ALLEGED FRAUD
. INSURANCE POLICY INVOLVED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Oct. 11. Two 'brothers, Cecil William Mitchell and Arthur Moir Mitchell, one a salesman and the other a farm hand, were charged in the Police Court -with fraud and conspiracy in attempting to obtain from the Insurance Oflioe of Australia, Ltd., £lBO by falsely representing that four bags and their contents, covered by a policy, were lost. The bags, according to Detective Hammond, were insured at Christchurch. The two accused left Christchurch about September 30; one came to Auckland and took delivery of th’e luggage, and the other came north later and claimed the insurance, saying the bags had been lost. The bags were found by the police at Taupiri, where another brother lived. Both intended leaving for Sydney.
Accused were remanded till next Friday and allowed bail, each in £l'oo and another of a similar amount.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1929, Page 14
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