PRISON FOR FRAUD
53RD COURT APPEARANCE USE OF VALUELESS CHEQUES [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] WELLINGTON', Friday Two years' imprisonment was the punishment imposed by Mr. J. ],j. Stout, S.M., on Arthur Jeffrey Durrant. aged 52, labourer, who pleaded guilty to 15 charges of obtaining money and goods by false pretences with valueless cheques, and to two charges of obtaining credit by fraud. It was Durrant's 53rd appearance before the Court, according to Detective-Sergeant 1\ Doyle. Accused had never departed from tho one system of crime, said De-tective-Sergeant Doyle, and all his previous convictions had been for false pretences. By the present offences Durrant obtained nearly £63 in money. 9s 8d in goods, and £l9 10s credit, operating on a joint account at a bank at Taumarunui, opened when he entered partnership with another man on a firewood cutting job.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 13
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139PRISON FOR FRAUD New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 13
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