VALUELESS CHEQUES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19976, 19 June 1928, Page 12

VALUELESS CHEQUES.

BUTCHER SENT TO PRISON. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN • COR.DESPONDENT. ] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. Four charges of obtaining goods or money by false pretences were preferred against Frank Walter Barnes, tiged 27, a butcher, of Nelson, in the Magistrate's Court to-day before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M. The first charge was of obtaining pigs valued at £3l Os 6d from William Ruird, farmer, by falsely representing that ho (accused) was D. W. Johnston, of King Street, Dunedin, and would .forward a cheque. Accused was remanded (o appear at Dunedin on June 20. The other three charges concerned the issue of valueless cheques. Chief-Detective Carroll said that accused, who was living in Christchurch went to open- an account with a bank. On the strength of a statement that his sister was going to' pay in £IBO to the bank to his account he got a cheque book and then took a trip to Blenheim, Nelson and the West Coast, issuing valueless cheques and getting away with money and goods. He had already been dealt with at Nelson on eight charges, receiving sentences of three months' and twelve months' imprisonment. The Dunedin charge was about a different matter altogether. Accused was sentenced to one month's imprisonment on the first, charge concerning a cheque, three months on tho second and one month on tho third.