FAILED TO ACCOUNT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 196, 21 August 1933, Page 8

FAILED TO ACCOUNT.

COAL MAN IN WELLINGTON. FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Ezekiel John Read, aged 51, salesman, was sentenced by Mr. W. I<V ' Stilwell, S.M., to three months' imprisonment for failing to account to Henry Bray for £5 9/3, and was convicted and discharged on three charges of obtaining £1 3/6 by false pretences. The police said accused was employed by Bray to collect orders for wood and coal on a commission basis, but in the case of several orders he kept the money. Although Bray delivered coal on two other occasions he collected money for wood and coal but did not give the orders to anyoqe, and in one case he received 16/ from a woman and gave in the order but not the money to another coal man, who took the coal away again when told that it had been paid for beforehand. At the time he took three orders, which were not fulfilled, Read was not connected with Bray or any other coal merchant.