POLICE COURT NEWS
DAIRY COMPANY DUPED. TRICKED INTO PAYING £2O. My assuming (lie identity «>f liis brother. Arthur William Geol'fery Mold, aged 24, labourer. obtained an advance, of £2O from a dairy company which received cream from the brother. When charged in the Police Court yesterday with false pretences Mold pleaded guilty. He admitted having communicated with the dairy company and, staling he was Edward J. 1!. Mold, of To Kawa, secured £2O as an advance on cream supplies. Chief-Detective Hammond said that at present, accused was serving a year's sentence for theft. " Because he is now in gaol and wifl bo there for months yet, I shall convict and discharge him on this count," said the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt.
Appearing for sentence on a charge of stealing a pair of slippers from n city shop, Philip Stephen Vcrcoe, aged 38, labourer, was discharged under the First Offenders' Probation Act.
Charged with carnal knowledge of a girl, aged 13, at Trvphena, Great Barrier Tsland, Robert William Bailey, aged 56, farmer, pleaded not guilty. He was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20075, 12 October 1928, Page 16
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