FALSE PRETENCES
CONVICTION AFTER 11 YEARS
WOMAN CHARGED WITH FORGERY.
(Per Press Association -- Lopyr.ght 1
WELLINGTON, November 21
In the Magistrate’s Court, before Mr T. B. McNeil, S.M., Eva Hoare, who v, cs recently committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on four charges of forgery in connection with a transfer of her husband’s property, appeared again andJ pleaded guilty to a charge of false pretences relating to an offence at Westport in 1921. Detective-Sergeant Jarrold said that in 1921 the defendant was a single woman employed by- a Mrs Campbell at Hector, on the West Coart. On 6th. August,-1921, she went to a store in Westport and obtained -boots, shoes and slippers by representing that Mrs Campbell had given her authority to procure the goods. No such authority had been given. The defendant disappeared, and nothing more was seen of her until she .appeared before the Court recently, and it was found that there was a warrant out for her arrest.
The Magistrate entered a conviction against the defendant, but remanded her for sentence until after she had appeared! before the Supreme Court.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1932, Page 5
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