VALUELESS CHEQUES

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1930, Page 2

VALUELESS CHEQUES

TWO YOUNG MEN SENTENCED. AUCKLAND, June 2. A few days after AVilliam Porter and Leslie Charles Burke, both labourers and both aged 22, and a girl, described as a music teacher, arrived in Auckland, they were arrested by Auckland detectives. The men were charged with breaking and entering the shop of Victor Pulley at Rangiora on Ality loth .and committing theft. The girl was arrested on a charge of vngrn my. This morning when Burke and Porter appeared at the A! agistra re's Court further charges of issuing valueless cheques nl Wellington and Palmerston North were 'brought against them. Porter was further charged with unlawfully converting to his. own use a motor-car valued at £2llO. Senior-Detective Hammond obtained a remand to Cliri■dchurch on Tune Mb

j on the charge of breaking and entering and theft at Rangiora. Both these young men are implicated in a burglary there, lie said. I 1 hey got in touch with a young girl . in the South Island and came north. r I hev issued three valueless cheques in Wellington and obtained money and goods. Porter took a motor-car in "Wellington and they all drove to Palmerston North, where they obtained more money by a valueless cheque for -21 which they got a jeweller to cash. They then bookcfl three seats in a service car to New Plymouth, paying for their rides with another valueless cheque. They then came to Auckland, where they were all arrested. Mach was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, to lie followed by reformative detention for twelve mouths.