IMPOSTER OF WORST TYPE

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1931, Page 9

IMPOSTER OF WORST TYPE

ASTONISHING TALE OF FRAUD HOTEL WAITRESS DEFRAUDED. WOULD BE LUCKY IN INVESTMENT By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Juiie IS. An astonishing tale of ft nd credulity was told in the Police Court to-day when Claude McLaughlin, agM 21, alias Claude Dolores, alias Dr. Claude Schneider, was charged with obtaining £92 by fraud and, stealing £l3 il ca £h and a typewriter. There were two charges of telling fortunes and of intoxication in a car. McLaughlin was arrested last week and remanded, but yesterday when e went to the police station to report he arrived in a car drunk. The police said in January a hotel waitress went to McLaughlin to have her fortune told. He told her that she would be lucky if she invested. He was x running a rodeo, company and invited ■ her to invent with him. She gave him altogether £92, including £5O for “stamp duty.’' From another man he borrowed a typewriter and immediately sole’ it. A train conductor had his fortune told and gave accused two £5 notes, although he had told accused that one of His predictions was absolutely false. Accused pretended to burn the bank notes, but it was only a trick.. The prosecuting detective concluded: “He is a pure and unadulterated imposter of the worst type. ’ Counsel said that accused would repay the money. The magistrate (Mr. Hunt); Will he? He won’t be earning for twelve months.” ■ *