ADVENTURE OF ESCAPEE
FORGERY WHILE AT LARGE
DECEIVED LODGINGHOUSE-KEEPER
SCHLUTER SENT FOR SENTENCE.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Dec. 21. Frederick William Schluter, aged 42, engineer, who escaped from the Mt. Eden prison early this year, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to forging and uttering a cheque for £9O and to theft (two charges). The offences were committed while he was at liberty. Mrs. Meiklejohn, a boardinghousekeeper, gave evidence that Schluter went to her house under the name of Fogden. He said he had no money, but showed her a Post Office bank book With a credit of £52 odd on July 11. She asked him to fix her handbag, yhich was. broken. In it was her cheque book. Next day accused obtained a specimen of her writing and signature by getting her to write a letter to the City Council with reference to the hot water system. On July 21 she discovered that a cheque for £9O had gone through her account. The signature was practically identical with her writing. Accused had left on July 13. Detective McPhee said that when Schluter was interviewed after his recapture he said he wanted to clear everything up. He made a statement in which he admitted taking two blank cheques from Mrs. Meiklejohn’s book. He bought a motor-cycle with some of the money and played pakapoo with the remainder, winning £B2. Accused was committed for sentence on the charge of being an incorrigible rogue in that he escaped frbm the Mt. Eden prison.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1932, Page 7
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