VALUELESS CHEQUES
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(By Telegraph-r-Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
.'•■• For) cashing -four ; ' valueless cheques and-: thereby obtaining money and goods to the value' of £30 10s, Arthur -Middleton Leggett, aged 48, a labourer, Av.asssentenced to six months' hard labourjStoday. The police stated that the accused obtained cheque forms and on January 12 issued the first cheque on :a"idraper, who gave .him' clothing! and £"7:25,6 d in.change. On the same .day he cashed a cheque for.ten guineas with a-jeweller, buying'a wedding ring and receiving change. His subsequent offences were cashing, cheques in hotels. The accused had been' twice married,, the second marriage taking rjlace while he was operating on these cheques. .'; His second, wife had left him after a month. In imposing sentence the Magistrate said the accused had convictions for forgery, and theft >ahd:had a record, v .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 5
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138VALUELESS CHEQUES Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 5
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