CONSPIRACY ALLEGED.
Two Men Face Charge at Auckland. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, August 2 Clifford Spencer Dahlin, alias Power, aged thirty-seven, and Reginald Clarence Williams, alias Reader, aged forty-three, who were extradited from Australia on charges of conspiring to defraud a North Auckland farmer named George Montague Poyner of £I3OO appeared in the Supreme Court to-day. It is alleged that the accused are two of four men who last August had a part in transactions with Poyner in which he asserts he lost £I3OO. The men told him that a great glassworks was to be built in 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. Poyner eventually wrote a cheque for £I2OO and one of the men wrote a cheque for £2BOO. Both were handed to Power, who wrote a cheque for £4600. Poyner held this cheque only temporarily. The men left, and it is alleged that shortly afterwards Poyner’s cheque was cashed. Poyner was unable to identify the men, but the Crown Prosecutor said that they would be identified by others. Evidence on the lines of the Crown Prosocutor’s statement was heard. The case was adjourned tiff tomorrow.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 522, 3 August 1932, Page 7
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