Undischarged Bankrupt Sent to Gaol
FOUR CHARGES OF OBTAINING CREDIT Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. A jury in the Supreme Court to-day found Leonard Owen Bellette, a legal enquiry agent, of Wellington, guilty of four charges of obtaining credit while an undischarged bankrupt.
The Chief Justice sentenced accused to 12 mouths’ imprisonment on each charge, tho sentences to be concurrent. “If I gave you your freedom, it would be no more or less than offering a premium on your offences,” said Sir Michael Myers, answering a plea for leniency. “You go into the witnessbox and endeavour by false testimony to induce the jury to believe that honest witnesses have given perjured evidence. Not only that, but you induce your wife and another to give false testimony. You have aggravated your offence very greatly by the course you have adopted.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7299, 28 October 1933, Page 6
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