SWINDLER PUNISHED.
THREE YEARS' DETENTION
MAN WITH PLAUSIBLE TONGUE
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] NEW PLYMOUTH. Wednesday.
"This man is a swindler with a plausible tongue. He just goes about the country and takes what hj» wants." said SeniorSergeant McCrorie, referring to David Morris Morgan, a vonng man who was sentenced to-dav at New Plymouth to three years' reformative detention on charges of false pretences. The charges were: Illeeallv converting a car to his own use at Christchurch, obtaining £6 6s from a. man at. Rolleston by means of a valueless cheque, obtaining £6 15s from a man at Temuka by the same means, obtaining from a widow, Maud Maria Lindsay, at Auckland, £4 in cash, a sewing machine, a suitcase and other goods, valued at £37 ss. by representing that he intended to marry her and that he had a farm at. Opotiki; and illegally converting a car to his own use at Ngaio.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20968, 3 September 1931, Page 11
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154SWINDLER PUNISHED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20968, 3 September 1931, Page 11
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