SUIT GOT BY FRAUD
A “CHEEKY" OFFENDER [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, June 12. “ Cheeky is the only expression for it,” said the magistrate (Mr Levvey) when he was informed that John M'Lean, when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, was wearing the suit he obtained by false pretences. “ He wears the suit, doesn’t pay for it and obtains it by fraud, and then wants to be treated leniently,” added the magistrate, addressing Mr Amodeo, M'Lean’s counsel. M'Lean was charged that, on March 11 at Ashburton, he obtained one suit of clothes valued at £4 Is 6d by falsely representing that the bicycle which he deposited as security was his own property, and that he paid £8 for it. He pleaded guilty. The police said M'Lean’s record was not a good one, as he had been sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment on two charges of.theft at •Timaru. At Dunedin he had been sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for false pre-, tences and one month for theft. All these offences had occurred in 1934. “Your record Ms not such a good one,” said the Magistrate, addressing M'Lean, “ and you had better be a little more careful.” He ordered M’Lean to come up for sentence if called on within 12 months, repayment for the suit to be made through the probation officer.
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Evening Star, Issue 22363, 12 June 1936, Page 10
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222SUIT GOT BY FRAUD Evening Star, Issue 22363, 12 June 1936, Page 10
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