“FLIGHT OF FANCY”
SHAH PILOT'S FRAUDS
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION’.]
AUCKLAND. June 22
By pretending that he was a commercial- air pilot. Ernest William Sampson, 32. obtained sums of money totalling £ 6/8/-, 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 11/- from Elizabeth MacGuirc. also to charges of obtaining money from Arthur Clarence Denton and John Henry Pratt, by falsely representing he wjis employed by the Union Airways at ,£lO/10/- per week. “Sampson has previously been in trouble, and has a dozen convictions for similar offences,” said Detective Sergeant McHugh. Magistrate McKean 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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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 June 1937, Page 2
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