GAOL FOR FALSE PRETENCES
A sentence of 12 months' imprisonment was imposed upon Archibald Victor Rudge. a salesman, aged 49, who appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today and admitted seven charges of false pretences involving £27.
Detective-Sergeant W. McLennan said that the accused was employed by a well-known publishing firm, but lost his position, and afterwards went round the country, representing that he was still employed by the firm and taking people down by issuing valueless cheques. Mr. T. P. McCarthy, for Rudge, said that owing to import restrictions and the war the accused had found his income suddenly depleted, although his commitments remained the same. He had got into a financial morass and had issued cheques in the hope that he might have been able to meet them.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1940, Page 9
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135GAOL FOR FALSE PRETENCES Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1940, Page 9
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