FALSE PRETENCES.
MAN SENT TO PRISON. SHORT SENTENCE REFUSED. A charge of obtaining iron valued at £43 by false pretences was admitted by Frederick William Schluter, engineer, aged 37, before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court on Saturday. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said accused had obtained two tons of corrugated iron from an Auckland firm by falsely representing that he was the owner of the launch Gettie and that the iron was for a dairy company. Accused had made arrangements in advance with a secondhand dealer to dispose of the iron. The magistrate said accused had asked in a written statement to be given a short, sharp sentence, followed by probation. That was impossible, as accused did no work last year and seemed to live by false pretences, which he had continued in January and February. Accused would be sentenced to six months' imprisonment, . followed by 18 months' reformative detention. Schluter would probably have been declared an habitual criminal had he gone before the Supreme Court.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21113, 22 February 1932, Page 11
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