VALUELESS CHEQUES
(0.C.) PALMERSTON N., This Day. Released from gaol in Auckland in December after serving a sentence for issuing valueless cheques, Percival Richard Williams, aged 40, set out with a stolen attache case and suit on a tour- of the North Island, living on money derived from more valueless cheques. He went to Hamilton, New Plymouth, Hawera, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Wellington, Carterton and Masterton. Finally he was arrested by the Palmerston North police and yesterday faced fourteen charges of false pretences and one of theft. The cheques he issued brought him in £42 16s 7d. Williams admitted all the offences, and Mr. H. P. Lawry SM after entering convictions, imposed sentences of six months' gaol on four of them, the terms to be cumulative
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 87, 14 April 1942, Page 7
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125VALUELESS CHEQUES Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 87, 14 April 1942, Page 7
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