YOUNG MAN’S DOWNFALL.
AFTER A DOSE OF “SNOW.” AN AMERICAN’S ADMISSION. <BV TELEGRAPH”PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 10. John Francis Halcombe, aged 24, was charged at the Police Court with obtaining £3O by means of three valueless cheques. He pleaded guilty. Chief Detective Cummings stated that the accused came from San Francisco in April last year, and was employed by a large motor firm in Wellington. Later he was admitted to probation on two charges* of false pretences. He subsequently went to Gisborne, Opotiki. Rotorua and Auckland, representing that he was still with the Wellington firm by which he had been dismissed.
Halcombe, in reply to the magistrate, said he was a motion picture director at Hollywood, and fell a victim to cocaine, coming to New Zealand. He got a letter- containing had news from his folks at home. He met a man at a hotel in Wellington, who gave him some “snow.” It made him think he was Rockefeller, and so he went on. He could make restitution of £3O. but did not want his folks at home to know about' this trouble. He was remanded till Saturday in order to give him a chance to make restitution.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 February 1927, Page 5
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198YOUNG MAN’S DOWNFALL. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 February 1927, Page 5
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