CREDIT BY FRAUD

Northern Advocate, 19 August 1935, Page 7

CREDIT BY FRAUD

WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY. BEAUTY PARLOURS DUPED. REMANDED FOR SENTENCE. [Special to "Northern Advocate:'! AUCKLAND, This Day. A young domestic, who successfully obtained a complete outfit of clothing, as well as a variety of toilet and beauty preparations, from a city department by fraud, came before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., this morning. She was Myra Conway, aged 20. and she pleaded guilty to charges of incurring a debt for liability with the firm, and obtaining credit to the extent of £44 6/4, by means of fraud. Senior-Detective Hall said Conway, at the time of the offences, was living with her parents in Ponsonby. On the evening of Friday, July 26, she went into the store, accompanied by her half-sister, aged 12. Visiting various departments, she selected goods to the value of £26 2/3, and asked that they be charged up to a certain well-known woman in iRe-( muera. The following morning, Conway returned to the same store, and, by similar false pretences, obtained goods valued at £lB 4/1. Detective Hamilton, who interviewed Conway on August 12, produced a statement which the young woman made and signed. She said she was a single woman, and, at the time, was employed as a domestic at Mcrrinsville. She admitted going to the store for the purpose of getting goods on credit. Entering the store, she said she picked up a docket which contained the name of a woman living in Remuera. She decided to use this woman’s name, and had all the goods charged up to her account! “I took a considerable quantity of the clothing home to my mother in Ponsonby, and told her • that .1 had got them by a cash order which I said I was paying off,” said accused in her staatement. The next morning she admitted returning to the store and buying further articles, which she had charged up to the same woman: “I was in ill-health at the time I did this, and it was not until I got to Morrinsville that I realised what I had done,” she said. “I intended to pay for the goods I had got, and also intended to write to the Remuera woman and explain everything. I am sorry for what I haife done.” Senior Detective Hall said nothing previously was known against Conway. The firm was prepared to take back goods to the value of £2l 11/7 which had not been used. Other articles obtained by the young woman had been lost, while other articles of clothing had been worn. A sum ot money was deposited in the Public Trust Office in connection with her child, and I understand that she draws from this about 12/6 a week.” added Mr Hall. “I would like to know something about her antecedents and past history,” said the Magistrate, who remanded Conway until Saturday next for sentence.