PRISONERS SENTENCED
THREE YEARS FOR FRAUD.
(Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, September 30
“These frauds were particularly cruel, and I have no faith in your statement that you will make restitution.” stated Judge Smith to-day in sentencing Wilfred Harold Adams, 28, to three years’ hard labour for false pretences, and obtaining credit by fraud.
Adams had pleaded guilty to duping a woman, and taking from her £337, telling her his Uncle Charlie in Remuera, was about to give him money to start in business.
Cedric Horace Sanders got two years’ hard labour for theft at Rawene. He had previously been on probation.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 September 1929, Page 2
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