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THEFT AND FALSE PRETENCES SENTENCE OF IS MONTHS CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. On eight charges of theft and failure to account, and four charges of false pretences, involving a total sum of £2578 9s 7d, William John Spratt, a land agent, aged 53, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence by Mr E., C. Levvey, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Spratt had pleaded guilty to 31 charges. He was remanded sine die for sentence on 18 summary charges for failure to account involving £348 15s 3d, and one summary charge of theft involving £34 19s. Bail was allowed in the sum of £IOOO and two sureties of £SOO.
Spratt appeared before Mr Justice Northcroft this morning, and was sentenced to 18 months’ reformative treatment. /
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 288, 17 September 1941, Page 6
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