A MEAN OFFENCE.
Per Press Association,
WELLINGTON, February 20. John "William Campbell was convicted at the Magistrate's Court to-day of a despicably mean offence. He was charged with procuring Penguin matinee tickets from Mr J. C. "Williamson's Company on false pretences, the value being £2 2s. The accused communicated with one of Mr "Williamson's clerks in the name of Mr Smith, Taranaki," and asked that he might get tickets to sell lor the relief of sufferers by the wreck. In[ the evening he was found in a drunken state. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and on a second charge of procuring 19s 6d worth of cakes by means of false pretences, he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, the sentences to be cumulative.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXiX, Issue 7727, 22 February 1909, Page 1
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125A MEAN OFFENCE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXiX, Issue 7727, 22 February 1909, Page 1
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