ALLEGED TRICKSTERS.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16485, 2 May 1925, Page 5

ALLEGED TRICKSTERS.

4 FARMER ROBBED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, Friday. Allegations that he had been asked to go to the Esplanade to assist at a horse sale and that he had there been invited to participate in a game of cards, and that he had finally been robbed, were made by Stanley Gibson, one time farmer of Taumarunui, now of Christchurch, at the Police Court this morning when Denholm Gillespie, alias John Harris, a well dressed young man. was charged with the theft of £73. Accused, it is alleged, was one of a party of three who worked together. Following the occurrence, smart work by Scrgt, Power saw the arrest of Robert Howden, who it was alleged was the man who took Gibson to the Esplanade, but the other two men stated to be implicated left town. However, in Sydney recently, Gillespie was arrested for drunkenness, anil it was then found that he was wanted by the New Zealand police in connection with the charge laid by Gibson. Accused was deported from Australia and arrested at Wellington on Tuesday. Howden was charged at the Magistrate’s Court on March 12, pleading not guilty, and was committed for trial. At the conclusion of the evidence this morning Gillespie pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial at the Supreme Court.