MANY CHARGES OF FALSE PRETENCES

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22135, 3 July 1937, Page 8

MANY CHARGES OF FALSE PRETENCES

FOUR MEN REMANDED INCUSTODY

(PilEoS ASSOCIATION TELJJGUAiI.) DUNEDIN, July 2. Described by Chief-Detective Young as premeditated and deliberate frauds on the State, charges of false pretences under the Unemployment Act were preferred this morning against William Albert Sutherland, Douglas Robert Forrester, Andrew Lee Baird, and Hugh Wilson Gray. The police stated that in the past, some men had been fined for obtaining relief by false declarations, but fines seemed to be no deterrent, and in these present cases, the men were charged with false pretences, which allowed the additional penalty of imprisonment. These four men were employed at one wool store, and in two of the cases, when the department's inquiry officer sought information there, he was told by the man in charge that the accused were not working there, which was a deliberate lie.

The charges were laid under the Justices of the Peace Act, providing for three months' imprisonment or a fine of £2O.

There were 10 informations against Sutherland, a married man, aged 33, with two children; 12 against Baird, aged 30, married, with one child; nine informations against Forrester, aged 28, single, and seven against Gray, aged 40, single.

The accused were remanded in custody till Monday, while the Magistrate considered the penalties.

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