IMPRISONMENT FOR FRAUD.
said to be son or millionaire. * .. COURT REFUSES PROBATION. ■ By. Telegraph.—-Press Association. '.■ ;■ Auckland, Dec. 16. . ' iSaSd to.-hb the' .son of an Argentine miUibriaife, Walter Benbow Valdimar, a salesman. ..aged .38, alias Waiter Lucien de Ferdinand, was sent to prison for eight months on two of 14 charges of 'obtahung;£ip6“ih cash; and £2l in goods from - varipus- persons by representing that' he Was receiving £40,000 from his father’s Argentine estate. Counsel said Valfiimar’s, creditors had knoWn ' hini f or, mAny years and Were aware that "his father was wealthy. ....... The. fflAgistrate, Mr..F. K. Hunt, refus” ihg probation,.'said it was no use mentioni^. restitution,- as peoplo Valdimar <y~liad defrauded would not get paid," as lie was just an ordinary fraud going : About ; -N '.' ''
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1930, Page 9
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124IMPRISONMENT FOR FRAUD. Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1930, Page 9
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