VALUELESS CHEQUES.
EIGHT CHARGES ADMITTED. LABOURER SENT TO PRISON. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. Eight charges of false pretences by issuing valueless cheques were preferred against John Bruce Will Miller, labourer, of Dunedin, who appeared before Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., yesterday. The amounts involved varied between £5 and £lO, hotelkeepers being the victims. The cheques were drawn on a bank at Oamaru. and represented a sum of £sl.
Chief-Detective Carroll said accused was arrested in Auckland for a similar offence committed in Wellington, and was now waiting sentence. W T hile in Wellington he was wanted as a witness in a case in Timaru, to which place ha was taken under escort. In Timaru one of the Christchurch charges was discovered, and accused confessed to the other seven, " In a number of cases," said the chief detective, " there would have been no possibility of the police finding that accused issued the valueless cheques, but accused said he wanted to make a clean breast of it." Miller was convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment on one charge, and on the other seven he was convicted and discharged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19939, 7 May 1928, Page 11
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