Rat Poisoner’s Fraud
HARMLESS MEAT SPREAD Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 29. *'Men who go round defrauding business people in this manner must be famished. There is too much going on 'ey men who think themselves clever. That is contemptible,” said Mr W. OrrWalke»* in the Police Court when sentencing Peter Bryce Cunningham, aged 37 to one month’s imprisonment on each of two charges of false pretences and one of attempted false pretences. Cunningham had represented to a city firm that a preparation which he sold for poisoning rats contained poison, where as analysts stated that they found no trace of poison. Replying to the police prosecutor, Cunningham admitted that he was convicted in Christchurch four years ago for false pretences by representing to a woman that he was poisoning rats. He admitted that he had been before the Court on numerous occasions. The Magistrate said that he was satisfied from the evidence that the meat which Cunningham spread for rats in a city store did not contain poison.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 152, 30 June 1938, Page 6
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