"SHORT OF MONEY"
ISSUE OF VALUELESS CHEQUES
IMMIGRANT COMMITTED FOR
SENTENCE,
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.;
PALMj ESTON N., This Day. James Huston pleaded guilty at the Police Court this morning to charges of obtaining £32 0s 6d in clothes and cash by means of Valueless cheques. He was arrested at Grey town on 14th December. . •
In a statement to the police the accused said that he had arrived at Auckland from London on 4th October, 1925, and .eventually settled at Stratford. He went into partnership with a car painter, but the venture was not a profitable one, and he left the town without any money. He secured employment at Bridgeman's farmland was discharged after ten days. He took the cheques, thinking that they might tide him over until money which he was expecting arrived, from England. The money had now arrivea7~and he was prepared to make restitution.
The accused was committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence.
On a further charge of issuing a valueless cheque for £18 0s <5d at Stratford, the accused was remanded to appear at Stratford to-morrow.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1926, Page 10
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