FALSE PRETENCE.
AN OLD HAND. SIX MONTHS TO THINK IT OVER. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, this day. William Frederick Hodson, with two aliases, appeared in the Magistrate's Court this morning when a number of charges involving false pretenses were preferred against him. Hodson, it was stated, operated .in Palmerston North, Wanganui, Feilding, Shannon, Otaki and Wellington, representing himself to be connected with the Nelson Apple Company, and extracted small sums of money from various people. Senior-Detective "Quirke stated that Hodson had recently been sentenced to a month's gaol at Waipukurau for a similar offence. He asked that accused be remanded to Wellington until Friday next on a charge concerning -Wellington, where there would be other charges preferred. Hodson pladed guilty to each of the other offences and was sentenced to two terms —three months' each —on two charges, sentences to be cumulative.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 9
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143FALSE PRETENCE. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 9
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