SWINDLER PUNISHED
Man With Plausible Tongue WIDOW VICTIMISED By Telegraph—Press Association. New Plymouth, September 2. “This man is a swindler with a plausible tongue and just goes about the i country and takes what he wants,” said .Senior-Sergeant McCrorie in 'the Police Court to-day, before David Morris Morgan, a young man, was sentenced to three years’ reformative detention on charges of false pretences. The charges were of converting's cxr at Christchurch; obtaining £6/6/- fftim a man at Rolleston by means of a valueless cheque; obtaining £6/15/- from a Temuka man by the same means; and at Auckland obtaining from a widow, Maud Maria Lindsay, £4, a sewing machine, a suitcase and other goods valued at £37/5/-, by representing that he intended to marry her and that he had a farm at Opotiki. There were further charges of converting a car at Ngaio.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 290, 3 September 1931, Page 5
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142SWINDLER PUNISHED Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 290, 3 September 1931, Page 5
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