FALSE PRETENCES
How Labourer Obtained Money
Three months’ imprisonment was the sentence imposed by Mr. E. Page, S.M., iu the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday on Walter Henry Mulroy. labourer, aged 31, who pleaded guilty to two charges of false pretences, The magistrate remarked that accused had quite a list of previous convictions for theft and false pretences. Detective-Sergeant Hall said that on November 17 accused approached a Mr. Savage in Masterton iiud told him he find been in trouble iu Carterton and had a fine and costs, amounting to £l/5/-, to pay before a certain time that afternoon, and that if he did not pay the money he would have to go to jail. Mr. Savage gave him the money. Later in the day accused went back to the same office as that in which he had seen Mr. Savage and told a Mr. Young there that his mother had died in Wellington and he had no money, to get there. The result was that Mr. Young also gave him £l/5/-.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 58, 1 December 1934, Page 21
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171FALSE PRETENCES Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 58, 1 December 1934, Page 21
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