VALUELESS CHEQUES
Man Sentenced to Prison By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, March 24. For cashing four valueless cheques and thereby obtaining money and goods to the value of £3O/10/-, Arthur Middleton Leggett, aged 48, labourer, was sentenced to six months’ hard labour to-day. Tlie police stated that the accused obtained cheque forms and on January 12 issued the first cheque to a draper, who gave him clothing and £7/2/6 in change. On the same day he cashed a cheque for ten guineas with a jeweller, buying a wedding ring and receiving change. His subsequent offences were cashing cheques in hotels. The accused had been twice married, the second marriage taking place while he was operating on these cheques. His second wife had left him after a month.
In imposing sentence the magistrate said the accused had convictions for forgery and theft and had a record.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 153, 25 March 1937, Page 13
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144VALUELESS CHEQUES Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 153, 25 March 1937, Page 13
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