A Bogus Tale
GAOL FOR FALSE PRETENCES Fer Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 22. Operating between Dunedin and Christchurch, Percy Hugh Reckenzaum represented himself to various people as tho agent of an Auckland firm known as Slot Machines, Ltd., and by this means lie obtained £29 from IS persons. To-day he appeared before Mr 11. P. Lawry, S.M., on eighteen counts of obtaining money by means of false pretences. There was a further charge of failing to comply with a maintenance order.
Reckenzaum pleaded guilty and was sent to prison for twelve months for false pretences and for three months on the maintenance charge. Chief-Detective Dunlop said that Reckenzaum had “taken down" all classes of shopkeepers with a bogus story. The whole trouble with the man was drink and gambling.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 276, 24 November 1934, Page 10
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129A Bogus Tale Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 276, 24 November 1934, Page 10
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