FALSE PRETENCES.
THREE YEARS’ HARD LABOUR. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, April 15. John James Archer, a married man with 11 children, was to-day sentenced toithree years’'hard labour on charges of 'false pretences involving £2OOO. The money was obtained from an old fellow-employeo, allegedly to invest in mortgages. The Judge said that he found it. difficnlt to imagine a more callous fraud than that practised on an old* man for a sum doubtless representing his life’s savings.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 119, 16 April 1930, Page 4
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76FALSE PRETENCES. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 119, 16 April 1930, Page 4
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