FALSE TELEGRAMS
SENTENCE OF THREE YEARS. USED ANOTHER'S NAME. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A sentence of three years' reformative detention was imposed by Mr. E. Page, S.M., on Sydney Gray Railton, alias R'cxlgers, aged 44, cook, who admitted four charges of sending false telegrams, and a charge of attempting to obtain 14/0 by false pretence. The police stated that while in prison the accused learnt the name of a man in Wanganui, who was prepared to assist one Purdie on Purdie's discharge from prison, and accused sent telegrams to this man in Purdie's name and obtained £2. Later he tried to get 14/6 from a member of the Prisoners' Aid Society, saying that he was Purdie and had a job to go to in Wanganui.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 122, 25 May 1932, Page 8
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