FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE
Accused Refunds the Money Rleadipg guiltv to having obtained £2/5/- from May Pope, by means of a false pretence, Charles Bell, alias Clements Bell, labourer, aged 54. was convicted in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday aud ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months. Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., was on the Bench. Detective-Sergeant T. Y. Hall said that on Tuesday, Bell had borrowed a blank cheque form from a publican named Horan, and had fll'ed it in. Then he had taken it to the wife of the licensee of another hotel and eashed it. On Wednesday night, when he had heard that the police were looking for him, h.e returned to the hotel, and hud repaid the monej' tp the licensee.
“Ho has been before the court on three or four occasions before,” continued the detective-sergeant. “lie says he had been drinking,”
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 232, 28 June 1935, Page 17
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150FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 232, 28 June 1935, Page 17
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