"A CADGER"

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 61, 9 September 1921, Page 7

"A CADGER"

RECEIVES GOODS BY FALSE PRETENCES.

A lesson in the art of living without working was given in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when a middle-aged man named Henry Taylor pleaded guilty, before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.,- to four charges of obtaining articles, the total value of which was £13 19s 7d, by means of false representations; Chief-Detective Ward said that Taylor waa 47 years of age, iwas of a presentable appearance, and had had' a good education. He arrived in New Zealand in 1914, and almost immediately was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for forging a document. Ho later enlisted in the Expeditionary Force, and returned in 1917, when he married. Taylor then .secured employment at Trenthani Camp. „ Since his discharge from tho Defence Department Taylor had done no work, and all the money he received he spent in hotels.' He had two children, but there was not a stick of furniture in his house. Taylor had evolved the scheme of visiting tradespeople and receiving goods on various representations. He had promptly disjjosed of fclie goods, and just as promptly clifposed of.the money. "There are four charges," said' the Chief-Detective. "I could have laid 24 just as simply. His wife and children are destitute, your Worship, and if you adopt a certain course they will receive money for the first time." Tho Magistrate:-"What was his record at tilt- camp?" The Chief-Detective's reply was to the point: "You know the bond that exists between soldiers," ho said. "He was ordered out of the camp, for he was looked upon as a professional cadger." . The Magistrate: "I'll send him where he'll have to work. He is. sentenced to throe months' imprisonment on each of the four charges, tho terms to be cumulative."