Franco Pilot Gaoled For False Pretences
NELSON, This Day.
Michael John O’Neill, aged 29, who claimed to have been a pilot and to have served with General Franco’s army in Spain, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment yesterday. O’Neill was charged with obtaining from Victor Campden Constant, of Blenheim, £3 by falsely representing that he had obtained a position as a< pilot with Union Airways, and for incurring a debt for board to the value of £3 9/6 from Constant.
The police stated that in Christchurch O’Neill gave it out that he was Lady O’Neill’s son. He was prosecuted for fraud and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. He had practised general deception throughout Blenheim and taken advantage of the people. The magistrate said that O’Neill seemed to have developed into, or to be on the road to developing into, an incorrigible swindler. If probation was granted he was afraid there would only be a repetition of the offences.
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Northern Advocate, 28 January 1939, Page 9
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