FRAUD SERIES

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33095, 9 December 1972, Page 3

FRAUD SERIES

Two gaoled 9 months

(From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, Dec. 8. “You have had your party, and now it is time for you to pay for it,” said Mr F. G. Paterson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Greymouth today when he sentenced two unemployed Dunedin men to nine months imprisonment each, to be followed by twelve months probation. They are to take out prohibition orders and make restitution of $460.59 each. They were also disqualified from driving for three years. The two men, David John Patrick Feary, aged 28, and John Cyril Halligan, aged 41, had pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a series of 36 charges between them of false pretences by issuing valueless cheques in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Gisborne, and Auckland, in Oqtober and November. The offences involved motor-cars, petrol, batteries, meat, clothing, liquor, board and lodging and air fares. The amounts involved were $1209.55 in Dunedin, $l9O in Christchurch, $874.65 in Greymouth, $77.20 in Wellington, $33.80 in Gisborne, and $271.25 in Auckland—making a total of $2622.10. The men told police they returned to Greymouth for the races from which they hoped to win sufficient money to cover the cheques.