EMIGRATION FRAUD.
[from our own correspondent.] London, September 15. Peter Dorning, the man who advertised in Liverpool papers for young men to go sheep-farming in New —passage out paid, wages 55s per week, and three years' agreement—'pleaded guilty at Bolton Police Court to three specific charges of obtaining shilling postal-orders by false pretences. The one shilling postalorder was required to cover postage and Booking, and upon receiving this Doming ignored any further correspondence. When arrested he had 26 postal-orders in hi" possession, and at the Grant-street premises were 112 letters containing stamped Addressed envelopes for' tepiy. Defendant was formerly a telegraph clerk, and, work becoming slack, he tried win-dow-cleaning. He was so hard up that he had slept in a field for two nights. He had a young wife and child: The magistrate finally decided to place him on 12 months' probation, providing ho could find sureties, otherwise he must go to prison for three months.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14820, 25 October 1911, Page 4
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