FALSE PRETENCES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 145, 16 March 1931, Page 2

FALSE PRETENCES

Did Not Pay for Goods Admission that he had obtained clothes and other goods, of a total value of £4, the property of Florence Agnes Kay, by false pretences, was made in the i’olice Court on Saturday by Percy Greaves, aged 27, bushman. He was sentenced by Mr. T. B. McNeil, S.M., to two years’ reformative detention. Accused, it was stated, obtained the goods from a second-hand dealer on the pretence that they were for a number of men in his employ, and on a promise of payment which he did not honour. Some of the goods he pawned. He had a lengthy list of previous convictions and had come out of prison only the previous week. Mr. Cornish said accused had come to the conclusion that it was better to lead a straight life. It would be worth while to give him a chance. Other Offenders Hugh Johnston was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for stealing four packets of cigarettes, value 3/-, the property of Hop Lee. For drunkenness he was fined £l. Alex MacKenzie, aged 31, seaman, and Richard Miles Ormerod, aged 24, bdteher, admitted fighting in a hotel bar and wdre each fined £l. Charged with being found in a state of helpless drunkenness, Leonard James Burne, aged 42, was ordered to pay medical expenses, £4/5/-.