VALUELESS CHEQUES
Four Months' Jail Results
Pleading guilt,' to nine charges of obtaining goods and iiiiilhij to the value of £33/1 1 6. Ip false pretences with cheques in <'lirislehurcli. Leonard Henry George England, aged 3'J
a painter, at present employed in Wellington. was sentenced Io four mold IK imprisonment by Mr. Stout. S M.. in Hie Magisf rates’ Gouri. .'esterday The sentence consisted of eiimuhitive periods of one month on each of four principal charges. He was convicted and discharged mi the oilier live charges.
, Mr. 11. Cahill, appearing fol Ene- ; land, said lie had opened ;t Inp-iiirss lin I ’hrislchnreh and Io snppori his I home he h,’id issued cheques tiltet his account at the Lank had expired England had been expecting money from a • contract.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 120, 14 February 1941, Page 8
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128VALUELESS CHEQUES Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 120, 14 February 1941, Page 8
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