WOMEN ROBBED

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1939, Page 2

WOMEN ROBBED

"OUT-AND-OUT FRAUD.” [PEE PBESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, October 12. • The story of how a young man robbed a girl of all her money was unfolded in tho Police Court, when Leonard Inglis Spence, an unemployed carpenter, 25, pleaded guilty to four charges of false representations; also a, breach of probation. The charges included obtaining £25 from Mrs. Edith Beck, and sums of £4O, £l6. and £l9 from Ruby Millen Ferguson. “During the time he was courting Mrs. Beck’s daughter, he got to know Miss. Ferguson,” said Detective McHugh. “He kept at her till he had every penny she possessed, and left her destitute. He is an out-and-out fraud, and did the same kind of thing some time ago. He always preys upon women.” Mr. Orr Walker, S.M., said it was a mean, contemptible offence. Spence had been admitted to probation on three occasions. He was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for obtaining the £l6, to be followed by 15 months’ reformative detention. The two sentences of three months are to be concurrent. On the other three charges, Spence was admittted to probation for three years, and ordered to make restitution of all the amounts.