POLICE COURT NEWS
YOUNG MAN'S OFFENCES REMANDED FOR SENTENCE A single man, Murray Sloan Russell, aged 25, appeared before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday on four charges of obtaining goods and cigarettes to the value of £3 by means of false pretences. Accused pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant O'Sullivan said that in three instances the young man obtained goods by representing that he was employed at Westfield in a freezing works and on a fourth occasion lie said lie had been guaranteed a position at tho works. Accused was employed there last year, but such had not been the caso this year. Tho probation officer, Mr. W. J. Campbell, said accused had received a good education. His parents had done all they could for him, without result. Accused was remanded for a week for sentence, the magistrate instructing that he should be kept apart from other prisoners. A mechanic, Leonard Parks, aged dh (Mr. M. Adams), was charged with being in a state of intoxication while m charge of a motor-car in King's Drive on Monday. Ho was remanded until to-morrow, bail beiilg allowed in tho sum of £SO.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21577, 23 August 1933, Page 12
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