FALSE PRETENCE CHARGE.
REFORMATIVE DETENTION IMPOSED.
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WELLINGTON, May 25. Three years’ reformative detention was imposed by Mr Page, S.M., on Sydney Gray Rnilton, alias Rodgers, aged 44, a cook, who admitted four charges of sending false telegrams and a charge of attempting to obtain 14s 6d by a false pretence. The police stated tliat while in prison accused learnt the name of a man in Wanganui who was prepared to assist one Purdie, on Purdie’s discharge from prison, and accused sent telegrams to this man in Purdie’s name and obtained £2. Later he tried to get 14s Cd from a member of the Prisoners’ Aid Society, saying that lie was Purdie and had a job to go to in Wanganui.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 148, 25 May 1932, Page 7
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123FALSE PRETENCE CHARGE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 148, 25 May 1932, Page 7
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