CONVICTED OF FRAUD

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 291, 8 September 1928, Page 9

CONVICTED OF FRAUD

FORMER UNEMPLOYED LEADER Dominion Special Service. Christchurch, September 7. Albert Fisher, one-time leader of the Christchurch unemployed, appeared before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M.. to-day, on two charges of fraud. Chief Detective Carrpll said that accused, when in Timaru on March 7, visited a man mimed Lidstone, a marketgardener. He told Lidstone that he was just waiting for a job us cook on the s.s. Breeze, and that when he took otei the iob he would get the supplies from Lidstone. On the strength of that assura nee, Lidstone lent him 15s. He used the Mine argument to a fishmonger named Williams, getting fish and chips and money to the value of Os. Od. He had no job on the Breeze. He has served three months now. out of a six months sentence. The accused: 1 did not realise my folly. I knew Lidstone well, and 1 m willing to pay him. I’m serving one sentence. and I don’t want to go to gaol again, for my wife is ill and I have a position to go to when 1 come out. Accused was convicted and sentenced to IS hours’ imprisonment with hard labour on each charge. “It will be tacked on to your present term, said tnc Magistrate