PRISONER’S STRANGE PLEA.
COMMITTED FRAUDS TO UPHOLD PRESTIGE. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This, Day. An Australian criminal named Edward Charles Townsend, aged 32, was before the Police Court on three charges of false pretences involving £SO, and one of stealing an attache case and contents, valued at £8 Us 6d. He pleaded guilty to all the charges. The police stated that the accused had lived at first-class hotels with a newly-mar-ried bride. He paid his way with valueless cheques, and then" went to Wellington and repeated the offence, being sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment. He had deserted his wife at Rotorua.
Towuisend said he committed the offences to uphold, his prestige. He was now sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on each of two charges, to be followed by two years’ reformative treatment. The sentences were cumulative, but concurrent with the sentence accused is already serving.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1927, Page 5
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