AFTER ELEVEN YEARS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 49, 21 November 1932, Page 3

AFTER ELEVEN YEARS

Charge of False Pretences WOMAN BEFORE COURT Eleven years ago Mrs. Eva. Hoare, then a single woman, obtained some boots, shoes and slippers from a storekeeper at Westport by stating that she had been instructed to get them on behalf of a Mrs. Campbell, of Hector. On Saturday morning she appeared before Mr. T. B. McNeil, S.M., in the Police Court and pleaded guilty to a charge of having obtained the goods by false pretences. Detective-Sergeant Jarrold said in 1921 accused, who was an employee of Mrs. Campbell, told her that she was going to get married. Mrs. Campbell gave her an order on a shop for some goods, which accused obtained. However, she went to another shop and representing herself to be acting under instructions from Mrs. Campbell, obtained the articles mentioned in the charge. A few days later she disappeared and no trace of her had been found until recently when she came before the Court on another charge. Accused, the Detective-Ser-geant added was at present awaiting sentence of the Supreme Court on four charges of forgery. The Magistrate said that he would convict accused, but would remand her for sentence until after she bad been dealt with in the Supreme Court.