PRISONERS SENTENCED.
I (rEESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAST.) DUNEDIX, May 4. The following prisoners were sentenced by Mr Justice Smith this morning: "William James Park, indecent assault, two years' reformative detention ; William Neilson Mackie, two charges of indecent assault, five years' probation, conditional on his remaining in the Salvation Home at Ailington ; Francis Bernard Francis, false pretences and forgery, three years' reformative detention. In this case £4OOO was involved. The prisoner embarked in a motor business without capital, and mortgaged the same cars to different finance agents. His Honour said that the finance companies which had been defrauded existed for the con- ; venience of those requiring advances j on cars bv the issue of hire purchase agreements. These were not registerable, consequently there was a clear opening for dishonest people to represent a truck as free when it had already been given as security to another company. -Unless these companies adopted a system of inter-companv checking, fraud was possible
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19611, 6 May 1929, Page 13
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