A HIRED CAR SOLD
FALSE REPRESENTATION (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGHAM.) DUNEDIN, February 20. Elwood Cuthbertson, recently sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for tobacco frauds, pleaded guilty to obtaining £SO by representing that he was the owner of a motor-car. The police stated that while on bail on the false pretences charge the accused advertised a car for sale in a local paper. A university student answered the advertisement and bought the car for £l3O, depositing £SO. The car sold by acused was hired from Wanaka Motors. The magistrate said that it was impossible to conceive of a more barefaced fraud. The accused was sentenced to 12 months' gaol, to be served at the expiration of the present sentence.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21404, 21 February 1935, Page 11
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117A HIRED CAR SOLD Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21404, 21 February 1935, Page 11
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