GAY DECEIVER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 5, 1 May 1939, Page 5

GAY DECEIVER

■, g MAN DEFRAUDS WOMAN SPENDS MONEY ON DRINK "It was most despicable conduct" said Detective-Sergeant Nalder when prosecuting Harry Manning, labour, er, aged .38, in the Auckland Police Court on, four charges of obtaining a total of £86 by defraud. Manning, said the police, defrauded a Whaka-i tane woman of her hard-earned savings which he spent in drink. Manning had worked as a kitchen hand in, a Whakatane Hotel and he met a woman who worked there as a cook, keeping company with her for about nine months. She went to Rotorua to work and accused found out that she had about £500 in the bank. '•I thought I might marry her, but then decided not to,'' Manning added in a statement. '.He described how he got £9 from her which he spent on drink in Auckland. He lat_ er wrote to her and asked for £10 for a deposit on a business. She sent him this sum and he spent it. Later he went to Rotorua and told her he needed £22. the price of the deposit. She gave the money to him and he returned to Auckland ant; spent the money like the rest.

''I came back to Rotorua" h c add. Ed "and told her I had come to take her away and get married. She gave notice and I told her I needed £30 to buy a truck and stock for the shop. She gave me £15 and we came to Auckland. I left her at a. boardinghouse. I had made up my mind not to marry her."

Accused was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on each of two of the charges, a sentence of 12 ihonths in all. On, the. other two charges he was admitted to proba. tion for three years, a condition be. ing that he refund the £86 as ordered by the probation officer.