Costly Flight Of Fancy
(Per Press Association. Coxtyfigl it.l AUCKLAND, This Day.
By pretending that he was -a commercial air pilot, Ernest William Sampson, aged 32, obtained sums of money totalling £G 8/-, and on his “flight of fancy” he crashed when he met Detective Jones in Queen Street on June 15. - In the Police Court to-day, he pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing £3 11/- from Elizabeth Macgure, also to charges of obtaining money from Arthur Clarence Denton and John Henry Pratt by falsely representing that he was employed by Union Airways at £lO 10/- a week. ‘'Sampson has been in trouble before, and has dozens of convictions for similar offences,’’ said DetectiveSergeant McHugh. The magistrate. Mr. W. H. McKean, reminded Sampson that he had already served three years’ reformative detention for false pretences, and sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment on each of the three charges, the sentences being cumulative.
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Northern Advocate, 22 June 1937, Page 5
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