SOLICITOR DUPED
MAN SENT TO PRISON Dominion Special Service. Auckland, March 7. The simple yet audacious manner in which a man duped an Auckland solicitor was revealed in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when Robert Vernon, aged 31, a salesman, admitted a count of false pretences. According to the charge Vernon obtained £5 from Mr. Hall Skelton on March 4 by falsely representing that he was R. Olsen, a land agent, in business in Auckland, and that he had sold a farm to a man named Quinn for £4750, and that Quinn had asked him to get Mr. Skelton to put the transaction through for him. . ~ “This man makes a habit of taking down solicitors if he can,” said ChiefDetective Hammond. “It is an old game of his. He has been in gaol.” For accused Mr. King asked the Magistrate to give him another chance. “Times gje hard,” he said. The Magistrate: Who for? Solicitors or Vernon? Mr. King: The general community. In sentencing accused to three months’ imprisonment, Mr. Levin said: “This appears to be an old line of business of his during the last two years. He has had chances before this.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 139, 8 March 1929, Page 13
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