SENTENCES IMPOSED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 118, 18 April 1934, Page 9

SENTENCES IMPOSED.

ALLEGATION OF FRAUD. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 17. Sentences totalling seven months’ imprisonment were imposed on Dennis Edwards, a labourer, aged 25, who pleaded guilty this morning to the charge of incurring a debt of £8 with Louisa Rhoda Lewis, by fraud, and not guilty to the rliarge of converting to his own use a motor-car valued at £220, the property of Edward James McDonald Rountree, and to the charge of stealing 2s from Rountree. The evidence showed that accused stayed at the Federal Hotel under the name of Marcus Rutherford, saying that his father was the general manager of the Pacific and Orient Steamship Line. At the beginning of February he met Rountree, whom he knew to be interested in Maori curios. Rountree invited accused home, and they, went in the motor-car, but on the way Rountree remembered that he had not taken home any meat. He gave accused 2s, and sent him back in the car. Accused failed to keep the appointment that was arranged, and Rountree saw nothing more of him or the car until it was found by the police at the railway station.