HONEYMOON PREPARATIONS
MAN GAOLED FOR FRAUD. I (By Telegraph —Prer-s Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 27. J Early in November Arthur John Joseph Rogers, aged 20, employed as a clerk and labourer, decided to get married. He their hit on a scheme of raising cash and procuring goods by false pretences to lessen the expense. Things worked out according to plan. He was duly married and went off to the West Coast on his honeymoon lour. When lie arrived hack, however, he found a policeman waiting for him and in the Magistrate’s Court this morning'Rogers was convicted on three charges and sentenced to six months’ luird labour by Air. E. D. Mosley, S.M. Chief Detective Carroll said Rogers was married on November 4 and the charges arose out of his preparations for bridal cars and the wedding feast. He went, to- Gold Baud Taxis and engaged two cars, tendering in payment a cheque for £9 10s signed in the name of W. T. Rogers, and received £4 14s fid in change. The cars attended the wedding, but the cheque was found to he no good.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 27 November 1930, Page 9
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