FALSE PRETENCE CHARGES
CHEMIST SENTENCED (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAM.) WELLINGTON, April 30. Described by the police as the type of man who comes in from the Old Country frequently with the idea that he can impose on the people of this country, John Alexander Campbell Creighton, aged 27, a chemist, pleaded guilty to a charge of false pretences involving a total of £35. Creighton urged that he was not criminal and claimed that all the offences occurred in a few days while he was drinking heavily. He said that he had been working for a construction company -with, a nick and shovel. The Magistrate: How long—for an hour? Creighton: No, for a fortnight. A sentence of six months imprisonment with hard labour was imposed on one charge, and he was ordered to come up if called, within six months, on the others.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22081, 1 May 1937, Page 9
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