FRAUDS ON WOMEN
SALUTARY SENTENCE. [per press association.] AUCKLAND, December IS. Described as originator of a get-rich-quick agency, Sidney Alexander Wright, 28, salesman, was sentenced to-day to six months’ hard labour, to be followed by two years’ reformative detention. He pleaded guilty to seven charges of stealing £65 from women and four of false preterices. The police said that accused promised seven .girls a job as manageress of a cookery, shop at 32/6 weekly. He asked them to put up bonds which ranged from £l5 to £5. Accused had started another get-rick-quick agency this month; Magistrate Hunt said that accused had committed heartless frauds by robbing poor women. The excuse that he had a Wife and a child availed him nothing.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 December 1934, Page 7
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