"CAMPAIGN OF DECEIT."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18471, 7 August 1923, Page 5

"CAMPAIGN OF DECEIT."

♦ YOUNG WOMEN DEFRAUDED. THREE YEARS' . IMPRISONMENT. Having pleaded guilty to a series of charges of falise pretences in 'Auckland, Arthur Trouson (Mr. Blakey) was sentenced by . Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court yesterday to three years' hard labour. . ' • Counsel said that when accused committed the hist offence he was in a desperate financial position, and had to, find a sum of ,£63. -Apparently he had yielded to further temptation. Apart from some convictions in the Lower Court- he appeared to have, been & hard-working man. His Honor: It doas not appear so. The police say he is a gentlemanly loafer,: His Honor said accused's record was a very bad one indeed; He had been convicted before of false pretences, and now he had pleaded guilty to obtaining money from three women, to the total of £321. In His Honor's opinion, accused had entered upon a campaign of deceit to take these girls down. To one of them he had 1 proposed marriage, and he had got money i from them. He could not understand how ' the girls could have oeen.taßeb in by the trash accused had written to them. Accused had deceived and robbed them, and he had been guilty of false pretences before, j •'Yon stand in the dock," concluded His, Honor, "a. confessed sharper and scamp."