LOAN ON FURNITURE.
FALSE PRETENCE ADMITTED.
"This man got a loan of £5 from a money lender, giving as security furniture in the house of a friend, which was not his," eaid Senior Detective Hall, when Albert Edward Lear, aged 31, a porter, pleaded guilty to obtaining the money by a false pretence. "Lear said that lie had secured the loan for a woman friend, to whom he gave £2, and he retained £3. He is a man with a wife ana , two children, and when a detective went to hie house there wae neither furniture nor food there." Mr. Aekins, for accused, said a woman had asked accused to borrow £10 on her furniture, she to get £7 and accused £3. She could not negotiate the loan herself as the furniture was encumbered. Accused was a relief worker on sustenance. Mr. Hunt eaid he would give Lear a chance, and convicted and ordered him to come up for sentence if called upon within six montfefi, ; ; " : .U,"-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 149, 26 June 1934, Page 10
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167LOAN ON FURNITURE. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 149, 26 June 1934, Page 10
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