SIXTEEN CONVICTIONS
Man Sent to Prison
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Dunedin, July 25. “This young man has had sixteen convictions for dishonesty siince 1926,. said the police when Wallace James Clifford True pleaded guilty to charges of obtaining credit at boardinghouses by fraud; In one case he represented himself as a lieutenant in the New Zealand Forces, and in another as a doctor on holiday from Auckland. , True also pleaded guilty'to the theft of £l5 at Inaha, Taranaki, the property of Thomas Gordon Ingram. The police stated that since January True bad been wandering through New Zealand obtaining credit by fraud at various boardinghouses. While staying at a house in Taranaki ho took £l5 from Ingram's wallet. He was sentenced to terms totalling twelve months’ imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 13
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125SIXTEEN CONVICTIONS Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 13
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