VALUELESS CHEQUES
SIX MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT. ("Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. At the Police Court yesterday Tlionileighi AVill'red Franks pleaded guilty to eight charges of obtaining money by false pretences. The amount he received by the false pretences totalled £57 10s 6d. Chief-Detective AV. H. Dunlop said that accused had opened an account ear to in the year with the Commercial Bank of Australia in Christchurch. In all, lie had issued cheques totalling £139 Os 6d. His credit, in the beginning, stood only at £ll 10s 2d, and on September 7at 5s 9d. Franks bad started at Timaru, gone through the South' Island, including Ashburton, and then had begun in the North Island, he said. He had been before the court previcaisly on a charge of theft, the chiefdetective added. On the first charge Franks was sentenced to six * months’ imprisonment with hard labour, and on the other charges he was convicted and discharged.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 42, 30 November 1935, Page 3
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