GAOL FOR YOUNG MAN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22240, 15 October 1935, Page 13

GAOL FOR YOUNG MAN

VALUELESS CHEQUES "OUT-AND-OUT IMPOSTOR" TERM OF THREE MONTHS "The sooner you get back to Australia the better; we do not want you in Now Zealand," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, in sentencing to three months' imprisonment a salesman, Ivanlioo Huia LeslieBicknell, aged 24, for obtaining goods and money by moans of valueless cheques. Accused was charged with obtaining at Auckland on March 25, 1933, goods valued at Is 3d and £1 18s 9d in money; obtaining at Wellington on September 6, goods valued at 10d and £1 9s 2d in money and on September 7 £3 in money, by means ■of valueless cheques. Accused, who was represented by Mr. Cleal, admitted the offences. "This man is an out-and-out impostor," said Senior-Detective Hall. "He has posed as a 'Dr. Leslie' and has used various other false names. He has passed himself off as an actuary, an auditor and a bacteriologist at different times. He arrived recently from Sydney and set up in business in Wellington as an indent agent. He left, owing £6 for rent. He is married, with one child, and is at present serving one month's imprisonment for uttering a valueless cheque at Napier." "Accused commenced his career as a medical student, but apparently his parents could not afford to enable him to complete his university training," said counsel. "Now that he has had a taste of prison, he realises that these are not merely civil debts but constitute a criminal offence." The Magistrate: According to a report from tho Sydney police ho has been scheming and robbing in Australia for months. He must have told a plausible story to the Court over there half a dozen times to have been treated as leniently as he was. I sentence him to three months' imprisonment, to take effect at the expiry of his present term.