COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE
FALSE STATEMENT UNDER
MARRIAGE ACT
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, August 18. Pleading guilty to a charge of making a false statement under the Marriage Act by stating that his name was “Mickell Miller" and that he was a professional boxer born in Sydney, Samuel Henry Coley, aged 32, a labourer and seaman, was to-day committed by the Magistrate (Mr F, H. Levien) to the Supreme Court for sentence.
The police said that, when interviewed, Coley admitted that particulars in the certificate were incorrect. The police said Coley was released from prison on March 5. He met a young woman in a hotel bn March 8 and married her on March 11. The day before the wedding she gave Coley a rug and some blankets to be cleaned, but he pawned the blankets for £l. The Magistrate sentenced Coley to reformative detention, not exceeding 12 months, on one of three theft charges, while on another two he was convicted and discharged.
Bookmakers Charged.—On charges of bookmaking, John Bruce Clarke and Ernest James Watson were each fined £2OO in the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North yesterday. Alonzo Parsons was fined £25. It was. stated that Clarke and Watson had previous convictions.—P.A.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23411, 19 August 1941, Page 10
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