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Evening Star, Issue 20984, 24 December 1931, Page 8

Nathaniel John Reed, aged forty* two, a salesman, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment to bo followed by twelve months’ probation; for false pretences. Detective-ser-geant Kelly said that last August in Wellington accused falsely told Florence Edna Adams he was to receive £14,000 from the estate .of his father, who had died in Dunedin, and on the strength of this representation the accused was lent £5. The accused then came to Auckland and borrowed £3 10s from John Wisdom Shackelford by making a similar representation. The offence was a, particularly mean one, as Shackelford was a friend of the man’s father. The accused had no prospect of receiving £14,000 from, his father’s estate, which had been sworn at £3,500, and. the accused would become a beneficiary on attaining the age of sixty-five. He therefore had twenty-three .years to wait. The magistrate also ordered that restitution be made. —Auckland com respondent. j