“A REAL PARASITE.”
VALUELESS CHEQUES ISSUED.
TERM IN REFORMATORY
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day
Starting at Little River, Canterbury, on March 28, William Arthur Pitts, a salesman, aged 32, travelled north, leaving a trail of valueless cheques—at Prehbleton, Christchurch, Wellington, and New Plymouth. At the Police Court to-day accused pleaded guilty to obtaining goods and £23 in money by means of five lionnegotiable cheques.
“The best I can say of this man is that he is a real parasite, who lias lived by his wits, and who takes people down by fraud,” said Detective-Ser-geant McHugh. 'Hie was first known to the police in 1927, and later left for Australia, where he was convicted. Since his return to New Zealand he has been convicted nine times for false pretences and once for theft. Ho has been leniently treated, but apparently has not tried, to redeem himself.”
“You cannot he allowed to go about the country carrying on this business,” said Mr O'. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in convicting Pitts on all charges and ordering, reformative detention not exceeding 18 months.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 195, 31 May 1938, Page 6
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