CREDIT BY FRAUD.
VALUELESS CHEQUES ISSUED
PRISON FOR YOUNG MAN.
" This man went into hospital recently and told the doctors that there was £50,000 in trust for him, but he has not yet paid the expenses, and is penniless," said Mr. W. Campbell, the probation officer, when Ralph Fergus Cahill, aged 24, seaman, appeared for sentence in the Police Court yesterday. He was charged with obtaining by fraud credit to the extent of £9, and obtaining £5 4s 9d in money and goods valued at £1 5s 5d by means of valueless cheques. Mr. Campbell said accused was admitted to probation in 1922, but he was before the Court again within a few months and was given two years' reformative detention. Ha had had a large sum of money, but had spent it all. The magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, sentenced accused to six months' imprisonment, to bo followed by two years' reformative detention.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20596, 21 June 1930, Page 15
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