FIFTIETH CONVICTION
LABOURER’S VALUELESS CHEQUE
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
BLENHEIM, April 28.
His half-century in crime convictions was reached, this njorning, by Arthur Jeffrey Durrant, and he is not out yet. In the Magistrate’s Court, Durrant, a labourer, pleaded guilty to two charges of false pretences. He was released from Paparua on April 9. Accused ari’ived at Blenheim on April 1G and made himself known to a hotel proprietor, whom he told he was driving a mob of sheep from Christchurch, where he had a good time, but lost his cheque book. The hotel proprietor gave him a cheque form, which accused filled in and cashed, later repeating the performance at another Blenheim hotel. Both cheques were valueless.
“This brings your convictions up to, half-a-century,” commented Mr Maunsell, S.M., after perusing the accused’s list. “You have ten convictions of false jiretences, and have spent some of the last year and the year before in gaol.” A sentence of one year’s imprisonment was imposed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1937, Page 2
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