LODGING BY FRAUD

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 56, 9 March 1929, Page 17

LODGING BY FRAUD

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post")

DUNEDIN, This Day. Albert Echvaid Lee, a joutb, obtain, ed lodgirg at two houses-by 1 represent* ing that he was emplo/eii as a musician, and left iv each case without paying his board. lip .wasrcfiargect at'the Magistrate's'Coiirfc to-day' with obtaining ciedit by fraud, and ou ono chaigo was sentenced to one month '» lmpiisonmeiit, and on a second charge was oideicd to come up for scntcneo within twelve month.,. As lie had been in gaol for three weeks, the month's sentence was made retrospective to Ist March, Chief-Detective Cameron said tho accused was released from the Borstal Institute at Inveicargill in January. Ho came to Duuedin and went to a boaiding-liouso and obtained board at the iute o£ 30? a wpek b,r reprfihentiny that he was employed as 3. musician at fhc Empire Theatre. Each, ovcniug ho let'l the house to maico^tho ownei bclic\o he \\!is going to woik, ITo lcmauied theio a week and their went to ;i house at South.Dunedhi, where he ag.rin fioudulontly obtained bodid. Tlicio wetc a number of piovious com ictioiis. against him.