YOUNG MAN'S FRAUD.
STRICTURES BY MAGISTRATE. A baker, George Rutherford, aged 26, who was convicted earlier in the week on a charge of obtaining £2 10s by falsely representing that he was as-sistant-organiser for the Cancer Research Fund, and on a further charge of attempting to obtain 10s by the same means, appeared before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday for sentence. The magistrate said it had been brought to his notice that accused had played the same trick more than once. He was just an ordinary cheat. "I did not do it with the intention of cheating," interjected accused. The Magistrate: Of course you did. You are a cheat by nature I will give vou a chance, however, to see if you will go straight. You will be placed on probation for two years and ordered to make restitution of the £2 10s. Cheats like yon close up the purses of those who would help worthy causes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20851, 18 April 1931, Page 13
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