PILOT CLEARED
FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE SUIT FOR HIS WEDDING A FORMER Royal Air Force pilot A officer, Dennis Neil Dalton, aged 20, of Cambridge, England, said to bo tlio son of a distinguished Army officer, was acquitted at Cambridge of a charge of obtaining a suit of clothes value £6 10s by false pretences.
The prosecution alleged that when Dalton ordered a suit for his wedding he intimated that ho was an instructor at a civil aerodrome, and that when tho suit was delivered he falsely declared that ho had sent a deposit by post. Dalton gave evidence that he had never stated that ho was an instructor, but. in course of conversation, said: "1 have bearded Marshall's aerodrome for a job, and I shall get it, whatever happens." He had tea at the house of his future mother-in-law, Mrs. Wyatt. after leaving the tailoVs, and did not go homo until after midnight. He borrowed £1 from Mrs. Wyatt, to which ho added £1 of his own, put them in a letter addressed to the firm, and posted it in a pillar-box opposite the house.
Mrs. Wyatt, a widow and an actrfcssmanager, corroborated, and mentioned that Dalton had not married her daughter after all as ho was a minor.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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209PILOT CLEARED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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