ESCAPED PRISONER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 21, 21 December 1932, Page 2

ESCAPED PRISONER.

OFFENCES WHILE AT LARGE Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Dec. 21. Frederick William Schiuter, aged 42, an engineer, who escaped from Mt. Eden gaol early this year', pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court today to forging and uttering a cheque for £9O, and two charges of theft. The offences were committed while accused was at liberty. Mrs Meiklejohn, a boardinghouse keeper, gave evidence that accused went to her house under the name of Fogden. He said he had no money but showed her a Post Office bank book with a credit of £52 odd. On July 11 she asked him to fix her handbag which was broken. In it was her cheque book. Next day accused obtained a specimen of her writing and her signature by getting her to write a letter to the City Council with reference to a hot water system. On July 21 she discovered a cheque for £9O had gone through her account. The signature was practically identical with her writing. Accused left on July 13. Detective McPhee said that when accused was interviewed after his recapture he said he wanted to clear everything up and made a statement in •which he admitted taking two blank cheques from Mi's Meiklejohn’s book. He bought a motor cycle with some of the money and played pakapoo with the remainder, winning £B2. Accused was committed for sentence. On a charge -of being an incorrigible rogue in that he escaped from Mt. Eden,i he was remanded to Auckland. For two offences against the Anns Act in connection with unregistered rifles, committed in 1929, he was convicted and discharged.