"A CRUEL THEFT"
SHEEPFARMERS DEFRAUDED
OFFENDER SENT TO PRISON [by telegraph—press association! CHRISTCHUKCH, Thursdur On a' charge of obtaining credit by fraud, Frederick John Leonard was sentenced by Mr. Justice Blair to-day to one year's imprisonment, to be followed by one year's reformative detention . In refusing accused's plea for lenir eucy, the Judge said: "It is no good trying to get me to swallow the story that you could go back to Blenheim and establish a. business there. You approached the farmers thero and K ot their wool by the method of promising them very high prices. Then you sola it at the ordinary market price. It ws* a cruel theft, depriving those hardworking men of their chief revenue."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21507, 2 June 1933, Page 12
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