GOODS ON ACCOUNT

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 217, 11 June 1935, Page 2

GOODS ON ACCOUNT

Charge of False Pretence

TERM OF IMPRISONMENT Two charges of obtaining goods to the value of £l5/2/3 by false pretence were admitted by Maurice James Dunn, aged 22, labourer, in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday, and on the first charge he was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, and on the second to one month, the terms to be concurrent. Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., was on the bench. Detective-Sergeant L. Revell said that on February 15 accused, in company with another man whose identity had not yet been established, went to the D.I.C. and obtained goods to the value of £4/1/9. The representation be made was that his name was Fraser, that he was employed by Dalgety and Co., and that he had an account at tbe D.I.C. On the same day accused, still in company with the other man, went to Kirkcaldie and Stains, and obtained goods valued at £ll/0/6. He again re. presented that his name was Fraser, but said he was employed by the Shell Oil Company. , Shortly afterward he disappeared from Wellington, but. was arrested in Auckland on a warrant issued at Waipukurau for theft, and on that charge he had been sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment. Detective R. Tripney had recovered some of the articles, but there were still many articles missing. Accused had quite a long list. In reply to the magistrate, accused said he had nothing to say. “Learned My Lesson” Brought from jail, where he is at present serving a sentence, John Woodville Starling, aged 24, clerk, was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on a charge of stealing a camera and a gold medal valued at £3/5/-. . Detective-Sergeant Revell said complainant lived at a private hotel in Wellington, and during March he missed his camera and medal. Toward the end of the month Detective Tripney recovered tho articles from a dealer. Accused bad been sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment for theft in May, but further investigations while he was in jail led to him, aud he now admitted the theft. Had it been known when he was before the court previously that he had committed the theft, he would have been charged with it then. Tie still had to serve a month for his previous sentence. . _ , “This is the first time I have been in prison, and I think I have learned my lesion,” said accused when asked if he had anything to say. Alleged Forgery Charged with forging an order for advertising space, Thomas Alfred Botterill, aged 31, agent, was remanded to Friday on the application of Detective-Sergeant Revell. . ’ . . , When an application was made for bail; the detective-sergeant asked that it be substantial. Accused, he said, could be charged on 28 counts of forgery, and he had 30 previous convictions embodying false pretences and theft. Bail was fixed in the sum of £lOO with a surety of £lOO, and on the condition that accused reported to the police daily.