FALSE PRETENCES
DESERTED HIS WIFE.
FURTHER TERM IN GAOL
(Per Press Association). Auckland, Sept. 29
An Australian criminal, Edward Charles Townsend, aged 32, appeared before the Police Court on three charges of false pretences involving £5O. and stealing an attache case and its contents ,to the value of £8 11/6. He pleaded guilty to all tlie charges. The police stated that the accused had lived at first-class hotels with his newly-married bride, paid his way with valueless cheques and then went to Wellington and repeated the offence, being sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment on September 14. He had deserted his wife at Rotorua. Townsend said he committed the offences to uphold his prestige. He was now sentenced to six months' imprisoment on each of two charges to be followed by two years’ reformative treatment, the sentence to be accumulative, but concurrent with the sentence the accused is already serving.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 29 September 1927, Page 5
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149FALSE PRETENCES Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 29 September 1927, Page 5
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