In the Auckland Police Court, yesterday Frank Jocelyn Johnstone Fletcher, a commercial traveller, aged twenty-four years, admitted a series of charges of obtaining goods (or the cost of them) by false pretences, and two charges of theft, the total amount involved being £535 11a lOd. The thefts included four diamond rings, valued at £lO6. The accused made ,various representations as to his business and standing to several people. The rings were given to him by a woman to wear, and she also advanced him money, which he promised to return. Accused was committed for sentence. “Now. Robert, tell me what an engineer is,” said the teacher. “He is a man that works an engine,” replied Robert. “Correct,” said the teacher. ■“ Now, William, can you tell me what iv pioneer is?” “Yes, sir,” answered Wiliam. “ He’s a man that works a piano.” For Influenza take Woods’s Great Pepperprint Cure.—[Advt.]
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Evening Star, Issue 17957, 2 May 1922, Page 3
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148Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 17957, 2 May 1922, Page 3
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