YEAR IN GAOL.
A BOGUS RAFFLE SCHEME. OFFENDER IN CHRISTCHURCH (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. How a man called on city firms collecting for bogus raffles organised for his own benefit was related this morning when Henry Lorraine Scott, a labourer, aged 44, pleaded guilty to a charge that on September 11 lie was deemed a rogue and vagabond in that he collected contributions by means of (false pretences.. Accused Avas sentenced by Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., to a year’s gaol. Tfie police said that the man was an imposter. He had represented that the raffle was for a Avcman’s handbag and had originated in the Christchurch Hospital and Would be drawn in Ward 7. Ho pretended that he had recently come out of the hospital. Accused had a formidable list.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 284, 12 September 1933, Page 4
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133YEAR IN GAOL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 284, 12 September 1933, Page 4
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