PLEA OF GUILTY
FALSE PRETENCES
CHARGE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, February 2,
A Supreme Court case in which William George Thomas was to have stood his trial on a charge of obtaining money by false pretences, and also on a charge of escaping from prison, took an unexpected turn when accused., decided to plead guilty. Thomas was remanded for sentence.
Evidence tendered in the lower court showed that he had secured a sum of £139 from a widow in Dunedin by falsely representing to her that he had a chemist's business in Adelaide and a sum of money on fixed deposit in the Bank of New Zealand. He became engaged to the widow in February last as the result of' a matrimonial advertisement which he inserted in a local paper. The woman later mortgaged her home and gave him £139 to enable him to release his money from the bank. It was further alleged that Thomas secured an engagement ring from the widow and gave it to a young woman at Woodhaugh during the time that he purported to be engaged to the widow. A verdict of not'guilty was returned in the case in which Philip David Roper was charged with being intoxicated in charge of a car and causing the death of a passenger.
The hearing is proceeding of a charge of cattle-stealing against John Riely.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 7
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227PLEA OF GUILTY Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 7
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