A DISTRESSING CASE.
VALUELESS CHEQUES ISSUED. GAMBLING AND UNEMPLOYMENT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. At the Police Court to-day, Ebenezer Martin Swinerd was admitted to probation for three years on a charge of having obtained money and goods of the value of £3O 18s 7d by means of valueless cheques, and on 12 other charges of false pretences he was ordered to come up for sentence it called upon within three years. Accused admitted the charges. Sub-Inspector Ward said that accused was a married man with four children. The cause of the trouble was gambling and unemployment. Mr Meltzer, for accused, said it was one of the most distressing cases that had come under his notice for some time. The offences were committed when accused was at his wits' end, with a wife and four starving children to keep.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 263, 20 August 1930, Page 6
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140A DISTRESSING CASE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 263, 20 August 1930, Page 6
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