WOMAN FOR SENTENCE
HUNDREDS BY FRAUD P.A. BLENHEIM, This Day. Ethel Eleanor Ray, 38, Christchurch, married, with six children, pleaded 'guilty at the Magistrate's Court to four charges of false pretences'involving £450. She was committed for sentence at Wellington. On a further charge of obtaining £150 by fraud she was remanded to appear at Greymouth.
Although she obtained several hundreds of pounds by a series of frauds in the course of the past few months, it was revealed that the woman had 'only a few shillings left when she vvas arrested. Among her victims was an elderly pensioner who contributed £200 by way. of "loan." She conducted operations in Pelorus Sound, where she obtained three sums of £100 and one of '£150 from settlers by representing that she had money in the bank and was purchasing a guesthouse for £4000. The accused in a statement said she arranged with a taxi-driver to send her a telegram to the" Sounds boarding-house where she was staying advising that shares valued at £3509 had been sold and the money placed to her account. This telegram figured prominently in the subsequent representations by which she obtained money.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1943, Page 6
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193WOMAN FOR SENTENCE Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1943, Page 6
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