At the Police Court to-day Barnard Reeves, was fully committed for trial on a charge of obtaining £800 from English, Peck, and Co. by false pretences, and perjury in connexion with the fraud. The evidence, which was very clear, was to the effect that the prisoner represented to prosecutors that he had purchased 200 steers from Cassilis Station, near Swift's Creek, and had paid a deposit thereon, and wanted cash to complete the transaction.
He agreed to give a mortgage over the cattle, also over the Marthavale Station and stock thereon, and did so, and at the request of Mr. English made a statutory declaration that his representations were true. Hayward and Liapp, of Cassilis, from whom prisoner said he had purchased the steers, deposed they had had no transactions with him for years. Prisoner, who, meanwhile, assumed the name of Owenson, had been arrested at Mount Gambier, whither he had levanted after cashing the £800 cheque. The Bench fixed the amount of bail and personal recognisances at a total sum of £1,600.
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- TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES. (1878, March 27). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 5. Retrieved August 13, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5926513
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