FALSE PRETENCES

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 84, 7 January 1928, Page 10

FALSE PRETENCES

MAN WITH MANY ALIASES COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE By Telegraph.—Peess association. > Hawera, January 6. Before Justices in the Magistrate’s Court to-day a seaman, Andrew Alexander Clark, alias Hugh Grant, alias Hugh Vernon Ponsford, pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on two charges involving false pretences, the first with stealing a gramophone valued at £35 and the second with fraudulently obtaining a cycle-car valued at £lOO. By falsely representing that the gramophone was his own property, according to the evidence, accused, using the name Ponsford, secured a graniphone at Hawera on hire purchase in March, paying £2 10s. deposit, and instalments of 7s. 6d. In March he traded the gramophone as a deposit on a cycle-car at Eltham, £3O being allowed by the dealer, and tn June traded the car cycle as £5O deposit on a motor-cycle priced at £95 at Auckland. The cycle was later sold to a Hawke s Bay resident, from whom it was recovered by the Auckland firm. Accused was remanded to Wellington r j c A further charge was preferred of fraudulently obtaining from a Lower Hutt resident in July by fraudulently representing himself to be a flight lieutenant at Sockbum Aerodrome. Accused, it was stated, was wanted by the police for offences in various parts of New Zealand.