BLACKMAIL ALLEGED
Defence by Prisoner
GAOL SENTENCE IMPOSED
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Blenheim, October 11
A story of victimisation by old gaol associates was told in the Magistrate’s Court by Frederick Walker McLennan, aged 30, clerk, who was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, the sentences to be concurrent, on each of four charges of false pretences and theft at Blenheim and the Kyeburn diggings, Naseby, to be followed by three years’ reformative detention. Accused obtained a quantity of clothing by false pretences at Blenheim and also admitted the theft of gold nuggets. "While at Kyeburn he stole a bicycle and other articles from a miners’ camp. Accused said he was discharged from gaol in Auckland in December and entered into an agency business with the remnants of his capital. He tried to go straight, but was blackmailed by old gaol associates who found him out and dropped hints to his clients.
On a further charge of false pretences at Auckland he was remanded for a week.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 15, 12 October 1933, Page 11
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