USE OF PRISONER’S NAME
MONEY BY FALSE PRETENCES DESPATCH OF TELEGRAMS. (By Telegraph—Press’ Association.) WELLINGTON, May 25.
Three years’ reformative detention wais imposed by Mr. Page, S.M., on Sydney Gray Railton, alias Riodgers, aged 44, a cook, who admitted four charges of sending false telegrams and a charge of attempting to obtain 14s 6d by false pretence. The police stated that while in pi’ison accused learnt the name of a man in Wanganui who was prepared to assist one Purdie. Ola Purdie’s discharge from prison accused sent telegrams to this man in Purdie’s name and obtained £2. Later he tried to get 14s 6d from a member of the Prisoners Aid Society saying he was Purdie and had a job to go to in Wanganui.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 25 May 1932, Page 9
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125USE OF PRISONER’S NAME Hawera Star, Volume LI, 25 May 1932, Page 9
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