VALUELESS CHEQUES

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 106, 7 May 1928, Page 14

VALUELESS CHEQUES

LABOURER'S OFFENCES I (By Telegraph.) j (Special to "The Evening Post.") jj CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. [ John Bruce William Milley, if labourer, B of Dunedin, appeared before Mr. H. P. 8 Lawry, S.M., on Saturday, on eight I charges of false pretences by issuing value- I less cheques. The amounts varied between I £5 and £10, hotclkeepers being the vie- I tims in each case. The cheques Avere all draAvn on the Union Bank of Australia at Oamaru, and represented a total of £51. The Chief Detective said that accused was arrested at Auckland for a similar offence committed in Wellington, where he was now Avaitiug sentence. While in Wellington, accused was wanted us a witness iv a case ill Timaru, to Avhich place he' Avas taken under escort. In Timaru, one of the Christchurch charges Avas (lis- | covered, and accused confessed to the I other seven. "In a number of .cases there Avould have been no possibility of the police finding that accused issued value- I less cheques, but accused said he wanted j to make a clean breast of it," said the j Chief Detective. g Miller Avas convicted and sentenced to I three months' imprisonment on one j charge, and on the otber seven lie was con- J victcd and discharged. |