GIRL DEFRAUDED.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19659, 20 August 1935, Page 2

GIRL DEFRAUDED.

PRISON FOR IMPOSTOR. SUMS OF MONEY BORROWED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., Monday. How a man from Te Awamutu with a long and varied criminal record engaged a girl as housekeeper In Auckland and Induced her to -accompany •him on a wandering journey, which was terminated at Levin toy the police, was told in the Magistrate’s Court at Levin to-day. Constable Burrell said that accused went to Auckland and advertised for a housekeeper, saying that he had a sheep farm in the Waikato. As a result of the advertisement he interviewed a girl and engaged her. When leaving the Auckland station for Hamilton the man borrowed £1 from the girl for fares. At Hamilton lie said lie could not cash a cheque, because lie was not known, and lie otolained a furllier 10s from the girl. After break fast the next morning the accused left the girl, saying that lie wished lu see his solicitor, but lie returned lo say I hat lie had received word llial Iwo members, of his lainily had been injured in a motor Occident, and that he was therefore compelled lit go lo the South Island lo manage his mother's farm. The girl said that she would go to slay with her relatives at Pularuru The accused followed' her a week later and suggested that, as there was too much work on ids mother’s farm, the girl and a married couple, with whom she was staying, should accompany him. They all left by car, but the arrest of the accused at Levin on Saturday completed the episode. The accused, Hector James Macdonald, was sentenced on each of two counts lo three months’ Imprisonment with hard labour, the sentences to be cumulative.