A GAY LIFE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 52, Issue 205, 11 June 1932, Page 3

A GAY LIFE.

VALUELESS CHEQUES ISSUED. A YOUNG MAN'S OFFENCES. (Special to the "Guardian.") AUCKLAND, June 10. This young man is given to a gay lif e _women and wine; that's the cause of his trouble,?' said Detective-Ser-geant Kelly about Walter Phillip . Hailes, aged 30, a farmer, who ap- / peared on a series of charges of obtaining goods and' money by valueless cheques. Hailes . (who comes from 'a respectable family at Gore), in a long statement from the dock, said that after undergoing 19 operations in the south he came to Auckland to stay with friends, but got into trouble. He made restitution. He started-on relief works, but he had to give up hard work owing i to abdominal operations. "I then went down to Christchurch to stay with a relative, but when I got there I found he had gone down south," said Hailes. "I was worried about paying my board and was invited to. fill" in a blank cheque. This I did. I then went to the races to try to get back enough to square it up, but I missed." The Magistrate: And you went on doing that in different towns?—Yes, I had hoped tcP make it all up at the races, but failed. "He's got about £7O by means of these valueless cheques issued during April and May," said the detective. Accused was remanded for sentence pending a report from the probation officer.