PROBATION GRANTED
Obtained Credit By Fraud Pleading guilty to having obtained credit by fraud, in the sum of 11/- from Miller’s service station, Petone, Stanley ■Robert Phillips was placed on probation for six months and ordered to refund the money, by Mr. IT. P. Lawry, S.M.. in the Petone Court yesterday. Detective F. N. Robinson said that at 7.30 a.m. on May 30. Phillips had called at Miller's service station with a companion and asked the youth in charge to put six gallons of petrol into the car and charge it to •!. Moore and Co. Defendant had stated that he was Mr. Moore. He had been found at Carterton, where he had been fined 10/- for a similar offence. He was 21 years of age. and a salesman. Senior-Sergeant G. Shyer. probation officer, said that Phillips seemed to be somewhat unhinged. lie talked of coming into estates worth tens of thousands of pounds, said he was head of a private detective agency, and had offered to tap dance and croon. He had been in company known to the police, and they had used him in obtaining the benzine. He recommended probation. Phillips said that he, had estates worth thousands coming to him.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 200, 21 May 1936, Page 13
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