PARTICULARLY MEAN ACTION

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 87, 11 January 1928, Page 10

PARTICULARLY MEAN ACTION

LABOURER SENT TO GAOL Six months’ imprisonment was the punishment imposed on a labourer, Thomas James Campbell, by Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, for obtaining money by false pretences. Detective-Sergeant Holmes explained that accused had obtained £5 in August, 1924, by falsely representing that he was a farmer at Feilding, while he had also obtained £3 by a similar method. In the same year he had obtained £33 from a woman at Palmerston North by representing he was a farmer at Taihape. “The accused was guilty of a particularly mean action,” said the in referring to the latter chaise. He had falsely represented to a woman whom he engaged as a housekeeper that he was a well-to-do farmer at Taihape, and on the strength of this had borrowed £33 from her which he said he required in order to truck some cattle from Foxton to his farm, he being temporarily embarrassed for money at the moment. In addition, lie hoaxed the woman by sending her to Taihape. Accused pleaded guilty, the detective stating that Campbell had previously scryed terms of imprisonment for false pretences, forgery, and-theft. On the two minor charges accused was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, the sentences to run concurrent, and on the other charge he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within three years, a condition being that he repay the £33 at the rate of £1 per week on his discharge from custody.