MANAGER SENT TO PRISON
FALSE PRETENCES AND THEFT
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, Noverqber 8.
Conduct which he described as “not only heartless, but which dries up'the spirit of charity of the general public for those less undeserving,” was attributed by Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., in the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court to Thomas Davie, who appeared lor sentence on six charges of obtaining money by false pretences and one of theft by failing to account to his employers, involving a total sum of £228 13s 2d. Sentences of imprisonment on each of the charges imposed by the Magistrate totalled 17 months. Davie was manager of a New Plymouth drapery business. He obtained money from several persons, including a girl employee of the firm. ‘i fear that looking at your previous record of false pretences and theft, not rtjany years ago, you have come to the conclusion that you may enter upon this business as a kind of profession,” said the Magistrate. You must learn that a man who thinks he can follow this line of conduct and get away with it is a fool—a fool even from the most material aspect. I am bound to give you a severe lesson.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22245, 9 November 1937, Page 7
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