THEFT AND CREDIT BY FRAUD
Man With “List” Before Court In view of the fact that he was already serving a sentence for offences at New Plymouth, Richard Hugh Champion, aged 25, motor mechanic, who admitted obtaining credit by fraud by incurring a debt of £l/18/6 for taxi hire at Frankton on January 18 and admitted stealing an overcoat and camera valued together at £7/14/6 on January 15 at Hamilton, was convicted and discharged by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle said Champion employed a taxi-driver to drive him from Frankton Junction to \ Cambridge on the representation that he was employed by the New Zealand Dairy Co., which he was not. The thefts occurred when Champion was asked to shift the camera and overcoat when the owner changed his residence. Instead, he pawned them under an assumed name. The magistrate said accused had a very bad list of offences. He was serving a sentence of nine months already and an addition would not be made to that term.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 171, 16 April 1937, Page 5
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176THEFT AND CREDIT BY FRAUD Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 171, 16 April 1937, Page 5
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