A MAN OF FRAUDS

Evening Star, Issue 19697, 26 October 1927, Page 3

A MAN OF FRAUDS

THE mi GATES OPEN FOR HIM [Special to the ‘ Stak.’] CHRISTCHURCH, October 25. A man of frauds is Ilobert Henry Brockie. Taking people down seems to lie his favorite pastime However, the gaol has opened its gates to receive him. .lie pleaded guilty before Mr MosIcy, S.M., to-day to obtaining goods to the value of £4 7s lid from Frederick William Trotter by falsely representing that he intended starting in business in Cbristcliim.il, and to fraudulently obtaining credit from Arthur Janies Horniblow, Ltd., to the extent of £5 3s fid. Chief-doteetive Lewis said Brockie had been a partner in a linn in Dunedin. He came up there and continued using his business card, saying that he was going to start in business in Christchurch. He represented that he was expecting a draft from Dunedin, and employed Horniblow, a taxi driver, to drive him about. Ho obtained goods in a similar way from Trotter, a grocer. Ho took a furnished house in Office road, which he left without paying the rent, after selling the piano. For that he had been convicted, and was now committed for sentence The man seemed to go about seeing what ho could do in'the way of taking people down. The Magistrate: F cannot have him going about like this. He is sentenced io three months’ imprisonment on the first charge, and to six months’ imprisonment on the second.