Gaol For A Scoundrel
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, Monday. Three years’ imprisonment with hard labour was the sentence passed on Franklin John Smith, showman, 46. in the Supreme Court today for obtaining money from a woman by posing as n gaol warder, and another sum from a dealer by representing himself as .■'hip’s steward with goods to sell. Mr. Justice Callan described the act of obtaining money from the woman as one of the most cruel, fraudulent pretences he had ever heard of.
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Northern Advocate, 18 May 1943, Page 4
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81Gaol For A Scoundrel Northern Advocate, 18 May 1943, Page 4
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