PRISON FOR FRAUD
IMPOSITION ON WOMAN
By Telegraph—-Press Association.)
PALMERSTON N., This "Day.
"This man represented that he had £500 invested in a bookmaking syndicate in Palmerston North and was earning £25 weekly," declared De-tective-Sergeant Meiklejohn in the Court today when prosecuting Truman Wiltshire, labourer and clerk, aged 33, who pleaded guilty to obtaining £17 from .Amy Esther Remnant by falsely representing that he was going to invest. £50 for.her in a syndicate and that."she would earn £4 weekly from it for twelve months.
When Wiltshire met the' complainant, said Detective-Sergeant Meiklejohn, he talked with her about flowers. Then he visited her home, offering to buy it for £3500. Next he spoke of a syndicate and declared that he was getting £800 in bets weekly from Feilding freezing workers alone. He obtained £17, but on returning for the remaining £33 he met witness, the complainant having become suspicious in the meantime. He was no stranger to the Courts, having many previous convictions. Declaring that it was a case of deliberate fraud under an assumed name, [Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., imposed a sentence of six months' imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 15
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187PRISON FOR FRAUD Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 15
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