FALSE PRETENCES

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 221, 19 June 1928, Page 11

FALSE PRETENCES

> —- — MAN CONVICTED AT CHRISTCHURCH Dominion Special Service. Christchurch, June 18. Frank Walter Barnes, aged twentyseven, a butcher, of Nelson, faced four charges in the Magistrates Court to-day of obtaining goods or money by false pretence. Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., was oil the bench. . . . ’ On the first charge of obtaining pigs valued at £3l Os. 6d. from William Biurd, a farmer, by falsely representing that he was D'. W. Johnston, 1 of King Street, Dunedin, and would forward a cheque, accused was remanded to appear at Dunedin on June 20. The other three charges concerned the issue of valueless cheques. Chief Detective Carroll said that accused, who was living at Christchurch, Went to open an account with the National Bank. On the strength of a statement that his sister was going to pay in £lBO to the bank, to his account he got a cheque book, and then took a trip to > Blenheim, Nelson, and the West Coast, issuing valueless cheques and getting away with money and goods. He had already been dealt with at Nelson on eight \ charges, getting sentences of three months and twelve months’ ■ imprisonment. • The Dunedin charge was about a different matter altogether. Accused was sentenced to one month s imprisonment on the first charge, three months on the second, and one month on the third.