BOGUS STORY.
MAN ADMITS GUILT,
SHOPKEEPERS DEFRAUDED. OPERATIONS IN SOUTH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. While operating between Dunedin and Christchurch, Percy Hugh Reckenzaum represented himself to various people as the agent of an Auckland firm known as Slot Machines, Limited, and by this means obtained £29 from 18 persons.
' To-day he appeared before Mr. H. P. La wry, 5.M.,-on 18 counts of obtaining money by fal.se pretences. There was also a further charge of failing to comply with a maintenance order. Reckenzaum pleaded guilty and was sent to gaol for twelve months on the false pretences charges and for three months on the maintenance charge. Chief Detective Dunlop said Reckenzaum had taken down all classes of shopkeepers with a bogus story. The whole trouble with the man was drink and I gambling.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 277, 22 November 1934, Page 8
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