FALSE PRETENCES AND THEFT
TWO MEN ARRAIGNED,
(Australian Pi'ess Assn.—United Service.} WELLINGTON, This Day. Douglas Arthur Fletcher Drewer, aged 32, was today sentenced to 12 months’ reformative detention on a charge of obtaining petrol by false pretences and convicted and discharged on another charge. It was stated that he had been employed at a service station, had opened accounts at five different banks, deposited small amounts and had been issuing valueless cheques. The magistrate said the offences showed that Drewer was > following a system and ho had indulged in the same thing ou several previous occaI sions. With a list of eight previous convictions, James Sadler, aged 43, a hairdresser, pleaded guilty to the theft of £lB 7s 5d belonging to William H. Corneal. Accused was fohud in' 'Corneal’s house. He had been intermittently employed by Come;;] and was allowed to go after an explanation, but later it was found that a cabinet had /been broken into and money stolen, Sadler was slight!v under thic influence of liquor-at the time of the offence. A term of three months’ imprisonment was imposed.
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Northern Advocate, 18 December 1928, Page 3
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