FAMILY IN HOSPITAL.
TALE TO EMPLOYER. SALESMAN SENT TO GAOL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ELLINGTON, this day. Thomas Joseph Levett. aged 4"i, a salesman, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate s Court to being deemed a rojiue and vagabond in that by fraudulently representing he had a wife and family 1 11. hospital he imposed upon a person with a view to obtaining money. He also admitted two breaches of probation. It was stated that he told his employer that his wife and family were in hospital and he was in urgent need of 30/. which his emplover pave him. Accused said drink was his only trouble and he was prepared to take out a prohibition order and not to handle anv monev.
He was given a sentence of three months' hard labour on each of the three charges, two of them to be concurrent.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 208, 3 September 1938, Page 10
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