CONSPIRACY CHARGE LAID

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1932, Page 9

CONSPIRACY CHARGE LAID

“GLASSWORKS SITE” BOUGHT ALLEGED DEFRAUDING OF FARMER TRIAL OF TWO MEN COMMENCED EXTRADITION FROM AUSTRALIA, By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Clifford Spencer Dahlin, alias Power, aged 37, and Reginald Clarence Williams, alias Reader, aged 43, who were extradited from Australia on a charge of conspiring to defraud a North Auckland farmer named George Montague Poynter of £l2OO, were charged at the Supreme Court to-day. It was alleged that Dahlin and Williams are two of four men who last August had a part in transactions with Poynter in which he asserts that ho lost £l2OO. The men told him a great glassworks was to be built at Auckland by a Belgian firm on land owned by a widow in England. The land could be bought cheaply and resold immediately to the Belgians at a handsome profit. Poynter eventually wrote a cheque for £l2OO and one of the men wrote a cheque for £2BOO. Both were handed to Power, who wrote a cheque for £4600. Poynter. held this cheque only temporarily. The men left and it was stated tnat shortly afterwards Poynter’s cheque was cashed. Poynter was unable definitely to identify the men, but the Crown ‘Prosecutor said that they would be identified 'by others. Evidence on the lines of the Crown’s statement was heard and the case was adjourned till to-morrow.