WOMAN SENTENCED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 212, 5 August 1933, Page 5

WOMAN SENTENCED.

CHARGE OF FALSE PRETENCES, Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 4. Described by Detective-Sergeant Revell as a woman who was becoming a menace to the community and who was quite unscrupulous, Nellie Limpus, wire appeared before Mr E. Page, S.M., in the Pplice Court today, was sent to gaol for three months on two charges of obtaining money by false pretences, the terms to be concurrent.

Accused is alleged to have falsely represented that she had 11 boarders and also had a boardinghouse on 'live Terrace, which was doing well. Accused denied the accusations. Detective-Sergeant Revell said defendant had a boardinghouse in McDonald Crescent. She advertised in the Press that she wanted a partner who was prepared to invest £4O. A young man named Vibond decided to enter into partnership with defendant, and paid £4O, defendant giving him a receipt. Later Vibond discovered that defendant had only lour boarders and was also unable to find The Terrace boardinghouse. In addition, his receipt lor £4O mysteriously disapjieared from his bedroom. However, be had a duplicate of tire receipt, and when he could not get his | money back he reported the matter to the police. The evidence, Detective-Sergeant Revell added, would show that’ another man named Lindblad invested £2O with defendant on practically the same representation. Evidence would also be given by a young woman who invested £3O with defendant about Christmas time on the same representation.