FRAUD ADMITTED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22444, 13 June 1936, Page 17

FRAUD ADMITTED

TROUBLE OVER A SUIT WORN BY ACCUSED IN COURT [BY TELKGKAI'H —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] CHRISTCHURCH. Friday "Cheeky is the only expression for it," said Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., when he was informed that John McLean, when he appeared in the Magistrate's Court morning, was wearing a suit ho had obtained by false pretences. "He wears the suit, doesn't pay for it, and obtains it by fraud, and then wants to be treated leniently," added the magistrate, addressing Mr. Amodeo, McLean's counsel.

McLean was charged that on March 11 at Ashburton ho obtained a suit of clothes, valued at £1 Is 6d, by falsely representing that a bicycle which he deposited as security was his own property, and that he had paid £8 for it. He pleaded guilty. The police said McLean's record was not a good one, as he had been sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment on two charges of theft at Timaru. At Dunedin he had been sentenced to two months' imprisonment for false pretences, and one month for theft. All these offences had occurred in 1934. "Your record is not such a good ono," j said the magistrate, addressing Mc-| Lean, "and you had better bo a little 1 more careful." He ordered McLean to come up for sentence if called upon , within 12 months, and directed that re-' payment for the suit should bo made | through the probation officer.