A TAXI RIDE
"FARE” SHORT OF MONEY.
CHARGE OF FRAUD DISMISSED. [Per Press Association.! Wellington, June 26. An interesting legal point arose tn the Magestrato’s Court to-day in a case in which Leslie Gordon Dunn, aged 23, was charged with drunkenness, and with obtaining credit by fraud by incurring a debt for taxi hire for £1 3s Accused hired a taxi and at the end of the jouney found that he had only one shilling in his pocket. He said lie thought he had the money and could not undestand where it had gone. The Magistrate said he was not satisfied that fraud had been intended The case differed somewhat from that of a man going into a restaurant and obtaining a meal under false pretences. The accused was convicted for drunkenness and flic second charge was dismissed. ■
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 164, 26 June 1928, Page 5
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138A TAXI RIDE Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 164, 26 June 1928, Page 5
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