MAN WHO IMPOSED ON WAR FRIEND
AUCKLAND, This- Day (P.A.).— Admitting three charges of obtaining money by false representations at Stratford in March and April, and three charges of stealing £8 10s and a wallet, Francis Edward Tanner, aged 28, a truck driver, appeared in the Police Court today. The police said an officer under whom Tanner had served in the last war, Mr S. W. Sandle, invited Tanner to stop at his home, in Stratford. Tanner obtained three sums of £4 10s from his host by representing that he had money "coming to him. Tanner stole money from another man with whom he served in the war.
“He is now serving a six weeks’ sentence for theft in June,” Seniordetective Finlay stated. “It was a dirty trick to impose on the friendship of a fellow serviceman,” said'the magistrate, Mr M. C. Astley, sentencing Tanner to two months’ imprisonment, to be followed by two years’ reformative detention on each of the first three charges, to be served concurrently. Tannei' was convicted and discharged on the three theft -charges.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 July 1950, Page 5
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