CASHING VALUELESS CHEQUES
MAN'S SERIES OF OFFENCES.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
HAMILTON, Wednesday. A middle-aged man, Charles Mozart Spinley, was to-day sentenced to six months' imprisonment for obtaining £12 10/ from Albert Newby, of Hamilton, by means of a valueless cheque. Spinley, who is awaiting sentence for similar offences at Rotorua, Te Aroha, and Cambridge, said he would try to make restitution if he were given a chance. Spinley's method was to arrive at a place by service car and present to the booking agent a cheque purporting to have been drawn by his employer at some distant place from which he had just arrived. Accused has a 'list," including forgery and uttering, false pretences, # passing counterfeit coins, and theft. He is await-, in<* trial on charges of making a false declaration in order to obtain a marriage certificate at Auckland.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 258, 31 October 1929, Page 31
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