FINED £l00 FOR FRAUD
Canadian Arrested On Way Home (New Zealana Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 20.' Calling Canadian engineer Louis Michael Terry, aged 34, a “confidence trickster,” Mr M. C. Astley, S.M., dealt with him in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland today on 12 charges of false pretences and another of obtaining credit by fraud in a way that would “help his return to Canada.” The Magistrate said that Terry imposed on acquaintances to get £195 by valueless cheques, saying he wanted to go to Christchurch. He was arrested as he was about to board an aircraft for Canada. Terry said that his cheques would be covered by a bank draft from Canada, but when this arrived it was for 19 dollars only. Now another cheque had arrived for 900 dollars, but on a different bank.
It looked as if his friends in Canada had “passed the hat around” when they heard of his plight. The Magistrate said there were now ample funds to repay his victims and so he would be fined £lOO and ordered to make full restitution of the £195 he owed
The Magistrate set a default of three months’ gaol on one of the charges and said it would be a condition that Terry repay the money before he got his liberty.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28952, 21 July 1959, Page 10
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