SENT TO PRISON

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 11

SENT TO PRISON

A WELLINGTON SALESMAN

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

AUCKLAND, This Day. A salesman named Earl John 0. Craven, aged 24, was today sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of obtaining £3 on loth Oeeober, by a valueless cheque. Counsel said that Craven worked for a Wellington firm, which agreed to pay expenses into his banking account. There had been considerable trouble between Craven and his employers over some cheques, and they had repudiated a verbal undertaking concerning some money which they agreed to pay him. Graven was not sure whether money had been paid into his account when he issued this £3 and other cheques, but he took the risk. There was no question of concealment or evasion, because he cashed the cheques with men who kueMr him and knew where to find litiii again. Several dishonoured cheques were atterwards paid by Craven and since his arrest this £3 had been repaid Major Holmes, of the Salvation Army, who knew the accused for sixteen years, recommended another chance for Craven, whose parents, he Said, were respectable Palmerston North residents. The Magistrate, Mr. Hunt, however, stated that the Wellington probation officer said that Craven did not report regularly, that he was untrustworthy, and that it would be wasting time to give- him a further term of probation.