FALSE PRETENCES
DEALS OVER MOTOR-CYCLES MAN SENTENCED TO GAOL [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] KAITAIA, Monday Remanded from Rotorua, James Ormsby, alias Mita Ormsby, appeared at the Kaitaia Court to-day on a series of charges of false pretences. Messrs. J. T. B. Taaffe and F. B. Rowe, J.P.'s, were on the bench. Constable F. Taylor conducted the case for the police. Defendant pleaded guilty. It was stated that Ormsby last November commenced canvassing the district for orders for motor-cycles, stating that he represented an Auckland firm. In some cases he received deposits for motor-cycles and in others an old cycle was traded in for another one. There were seven charges in all, but one of these involved a sum of over £2O and the other was the theft of a motor-cycle. Accused was remanded in these two cases to appear before a sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Kaitaia, while on the other five charges he was convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment in Mount Eden gaol on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22404, 28 April 1936, Page 13
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174FALSE PRETENCES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22404, 28 April 1936, Page 13
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