“FLIGHT OF FANCY”
BOGUS AIR PILOT CRASHES [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, June 22. By pretending that ho was a commercial air pilot, Ernest William Sampson (32) obtained sums of money totalling £6 Bs, and on his “ flight of fancy ” he crashed when he met Detective Jones in Queen street on June 15. In the Police Court to-day he pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing £3 11s from Elizabeth Macguire, and also to charges of Obtaining money from Arthur Clarence Denton and John Henry Pratt by falsely representing that he was employed by Union Airways at £lO 10s per week. “Sampson has previously been in trouble, and has a dozen convictions for similar offences,” said Detective-ser-geant M'Hugh. The magistrate (Mr M'Kean) reminded Sampson that he had already served three years’ reformative detention for false pretences, and sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment on each of the three charges, the sentences on two of the charges to be cumulative.
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Evening Star, Issue 22681, 22 June 1937, Page 8
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