COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 June 1927, Page 5

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

(BY TELEGRAPH - PRESS ASSOCIATION.? WELLINGTON, June 11.. John Alexander Rose, a labourer, aged 39, appeared before Mr. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate’»s Court to-day and pleaded guilty to hawing obtained £3 5s from Harry Roes by means ‘of false pretences. Chief-Detective Ward said that, although the two men .bore the same name, they were not related. The ac-, cased lived in a house on the Taylor estate, -Island Bay, and, by falsely representing that he was the caretaker of the estate, he obtained money from the other man by offering to let him a dwelling at 19 Trent Street. Accused was a married man with six children and had nothing to do with the estate beyond, the fact that he -leased one of the houses. The magistrate (glancing at accused’s record) : “1 see that your _ last offence of dishonesty was committed over twenty years ago, so I shall overlook it. I am going to admit you to probation for a year, but you must understand that it is not for your sake but for the sake, of your wife arid children that I am doing so.” . Mr Salmon directed accused to take out a prohibition order and told him. to make restitution as directed by the probation officer.