FOUND WANTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 104, 3 May 1923, Page 7

FOUND WANTING.

PROBATIONER GOES TO GAOL. FOR FALSE PRETEXCES. ."When sober, honest and industrious, but when drunk irresponsible and altogether a different man," was the descrlp- ' tion which Mr. Leary gave of William [ Ingram 133), who appeared in the Police Court this morning to plead guilty to seven charges of false pretences, involving the stun of £57 7/, and one of breach of probation. The story told to Mr. ,T. W. Poynton, S.M., was that Ingram, a married man with two young children, had gone on a throe weeks' drinking bout. During that period all the offences were committed. His procedure -vvas to borrow a blank cheque, and to fill it in, later presenting it at a business place, -where it would lie i-ashed. In Dunedin, on September 20, 1021, accused was admitted to pronation for three years in respect of a charge of false pretences. He had also teen prohibited, but on coining to Auckland he found- that his name was not on any of the lists, ?o he thought he was at liberty to indulge his craving. His wife said he ivas a good husband when sober. Before the ivar, his mother informed her he liad been a model vounoman, but since his return after m ° ing in Scotland, he had formed the drmkmg habit. For twelve months he *a<l been working in the country and did not come into the city till his wife became ill. Mr. Leary urged the magistrate to o-i ve ingram a chance, for the sake of "his -young wife and children I n w. c J Vor j hi , P Baid ho wante<l to he P aw S av 'T and hG would -''y P»tting him Jns ™ n \ was a s ave to drink. It was n<, good relying on his own strength, but A , been S""™ * chance on probation. ; U L dl , d . M , vah,e jt - H « had been feigned in the balance, and found wantWould A , t . en V wa >' f » temptation fould do h,m the world of good, since " Ork the ]i l Uor out »ft lowed W Dth i S im P r j son me°t. to he foltnert nnt a T ° f treatUy ° >ears was the