CREDIT BY FRAUD
GRILL ROOM INCIDENT A man who had a meal costing 2s 3d in n Queen street grill room and was -afterward found to have only !Ad in his pockets was charged before Mr. .1. Molding, S.M., in the Auckland Police Court with obtaining credit by fraud and also with using insulting language to the waitress. The man was Leonard Hilton Lowndes, aged 43, labourer. The constable who arrested him said that afterward a stranger came up and offered to pay for the meal, but witness could not accept that. The accused insisted lhat he had expected a friend to pay for him. but the friend disappeared. Sub-Inspector Pender said Lowndes had been, in the army, but he had never done any good, and was now discharged. Accused was convicted and lined £2 for the fraud and £1 for the insulting language.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20142, 11 January 1940, Page 5
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144CREDIT BY FRAUD Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20142, 11 January 1940, Page 5
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