FALSE PRETENCES STORY

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 175, 21 April 1937, Page 9

FALSE PRETENCES STORY

Money Obtained to Visit “Sick Parents” On six charges of false pretences, the offences occurring at I’etone, Lower Hutt, Richmond, Nelson (2), and at Hope, near Nelson, in which the sum of £3O/2/- was involved. Harold Richmond Kerr, alias Richards, alias Richmond, alias Kirk, alias Erank Robinsou. labourer, aged 34. was sentenced by Mr. E. D. Mosley. i?.M., in the Magistrate’s Court. Wellington, yesterday to four months' imprisonment with hard labour on each charge, the sentence to be served concurrently with a sentence accused is at present undergoing. Accused’s story was that he wanted to visit his parents, who, he said, were sick. In each case they were said to have resided at different parts of the Dominion. “Your Worship will observe that accused was more successful in his efforts to visit his sick mother than in the case of his father.” said Detective-Ser-geant P. Doyle, who handled the case for the police. “He used the ‘sick mother’ story five times and the ‘father’ story once. He hast a bad list of convictions, but has apparently gone straight for the past six years.”