FALSE PRETENCE AND THEFT
" PREYED DM WOMEN " [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 9. “ My client embarked on a sea of company promotion, and many older men have been wrecked on that dangerous sea,” said Mr Noble in. the Supreme Court to-day when pleading for leniency on behalf of John Hartland Pierson, aged twenty-four, an agent, who had been found guilty on two charges of false pretences involving £250, and one of theft involving £391 8s Id. The judge said the prisoner thought lie would be able to hoodwink tho jury by suggesting that two of the women complainants in the case had become infatuated with Trim, and that was why they had advanced money to him. This suggestion was rightly not believed. Although the prisoner had an honest appearance, he was a man who preyed on women and attacked their honour. The prisoner was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment with hard labour, to be followed by, reformative detention for a period not exceeding three years.
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Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 6
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166FALSE PRETENCE AND THEFT Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 6
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