frauds on Fuel Merchants

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7241, 22 August 1933, Page 8

frauds on Fuel Merchants

canvasser sentenced to three months. per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 31. Ezeldcl John Bead, aged 5 1 , a salesman, was sentenced by Mr Stilwe l, S M to three months’ imprisonment for failing to ccount to Henry Bray for £3 9s 3d. He was convicted and discharged on three charges of obtaining £1 ?,s Cd by false pretences. The police said that the accused was employed by Bray to collect orders for wood and coal on a commission basis, but in the.case of several orders lie kept the money, although Bray delivered the coal. On two other occasions lie collected money for wood and coal, but did not give the orders to anyone; and in one case he received Ids from a woman and gave the order, but not the money, to another coalman, who took the coal away again when.,told that it had been paid beforehantWrAtlhe. time .when he took three orders - which were, not fulfilled, Read was'-not ' connected with Bray or any btw Solir merchant.