MONEY BY TRICKERY
Unemployed Men Swindled YEAR’S PRISON IMPOSED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Nov. 17. A butcher, Frank Walter Barnes, aged 33, was imprisoned to-day for a series of impostures. lie opened a butchery, stocked it with meat obtained from three firms by false pretences, and collected £6l from several young men whom he induced to deposit bonds on the understanding that he would give them jobs. The police said that the majority of the j-oung men had been unemployed for a long time, and some bad borrowed money for the lannis. Accused had been convicted nt Tlmnru. Nelson, Christchurch, and Wellington for false pretences. Barnes was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 47, 18 November 1932, Page 4
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112MONEY BY TRICKERY Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 47, 18 November 1932, Page 4
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