FALSE PRETENCES.
VALUELESS PROMISSORY NOTE. Wellington, Feb. 5. At the Supreme Court to-day, Justice Edwards sentenced Fred Emanuel Simins to a term of reformative treatment not exceeding five years on a charge of having obtained a motor car valued at £4lO from Wm. H. N. Amos, by means of false pretences. Accused, who served on Gallipoli and was invalided home in 1915, gave Ainos a promissory note for £4lO, payable by the Union Bank Palmerston North. It was returned marked “no account.” He had represented to Amos that he had £BOO in the bank.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 46, 6 February 1920, Page 7
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94FALSE PRETENCES. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 46, 6 February 1920, Page 7
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