CREDIT BY FRAUD.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 241, 11 October 1929, Page 10

CREDIT BY FRAUD.

GOODS BOUGHT AND PAWNED.

KANT REMANDED FOR SENTENCE,

On , one of six charges of. incurring debts and obtaining credit to the extent of £22 by fraud/Charles Eric Spurgcon (41), ail electrical engineer, was convicted by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M./at the Police Court this morning.

The case was partly heard last Friday, Evidence was then given that accused obtained goods from various big drapery establishments in the city and afterwards pledged or pawned them. To-day Mr. J. F. W. Dickson, who appeared for Spurgeon, submitted that the question ,for the Court to decide was -whether, accused intended to defraud. Co\insel, .submitted that what Spurgeon told the .firms, when he got the clothing on credit, was true. Dozens of people obtained credit "by different shops tnSKtS™? ,^ es ' bllt tlie X d01l!t all take the goods straight awav to a pawnshop. There wcr°e six ffinces o f

Counsel said Spurgeon came from the West Coast, where he had been ruined t>y the big earthquake. He had a SSfe , end famity and Mr. Dickson eu^ertS , 1^ i Mr. Hunt remarked that Spurgcon had \ five proves convictions, and that he had been connoted of folio pre to u CCS lne magistrate remanded accused . lor sentence until next Friday, when a report will be available from the probai tion officer. In the meantime Mr. Hunt made an order for tho return of the Roods to the city firms on payment to fa& pawnbrokers.