FALSE PRETENCES
SERIES OF OFFENCES By Telegraph—Tress Association. Invercargill, July 31. Percy Harry Ellis, alias Cowan, alias Millar, who was recently convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on three charges of false pretences by representing that he was a representative of the “New Zealand Pictorial News” and the Government Publicity Department, again appeared in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when thirteen similar charges were preferred against him. He pleased guilty to all of them. Three had-occurred at Wyndham, three at Mataura, two at Bluff, and one each at Riverton, Fairfax, Winton, Otorohanga, and Fairlie. He was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on each of the local charges, the sentences to be concurrent. Detective-Sergeant Hewitt, who appeared for the police, asked that accused be remanded to appear at Timuru on August 6 to answer the charge from Fairlie, and also the Otorohanga charge. This request was granted.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 262, 1 August 1929, Page 6
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147FALSE PRETENCES Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 262, 1 August 1929, Page 6
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