FALSE PRETENCES
WRESTLER FINED By Telegraph —Press Association AUCKLAND, November 1. Unable to sail with a woman friend for America to fulfil wrestling engagements there, because of his arrest by a detective, Meynell Blomfield, aged 29, appeared in the Police Court today charged with attempting to obtain a passport by the false pretence that the signature, ‘‘L. Blomfield,” was his wife’s. Lily May Balenzuela, aged 24, was charged with making a false passport declaration. The evidence showed that Blomfield had been separated from his wife for five years, and he was paying her £2/10/- maintenance, which was paid up. He had a five months’ wrestling contract in America, and admitted that he proposed taking a woman friend with him, and to simplify his entry to America, he described her as his wife to overcome the difficulty of finding the necessary 1000 dollars bond. He said that he had no intention of evading his maintenance payments, and had entered into a bond of £2OO that the payments would be kept up during his absence. The Magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt, who expressed the opinion that there was no reason why the young woman should not call herself “L. Blomfield” if she wished, said that there was no need to deal with the case too strictly. He reduced the charge to one of attempted false pretences, and fined Blomfield £2. The woman was convicted and discharged on payment of £B/5/-, representing the wife’s expenses as a witness.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19946, 2 November 1934, Page 5
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245FALSE PRETENCES Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19946, 2 November 1934, Page 5
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