VALUELESS CHEQUES
SERIES OF CHARGES . ACCUSED FOUND UNDER BED (0.C.) TAURANGA, Friday A story of a man who disappeared from his home at Mount Maunganui some time ago and for two months j wandered about the country issuing valueless cheques and hiding from the police was tolcf when Robert Douglas Little, a carpenter, appeared before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., at Tauranga, and pleaded guilty to 15 charges, 14 of which involved the issuing of valueless cheques. The police stated that when arrested accused was hiding under a bed in his house at Mount Maunganui, where he had returned after his wanderings. Accused was sentencod to three months' imprisonment on one charge and on the others he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months. He was ordered to make restitution of the amounts involved in the charges.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24141, 6 December 1941, Page 12
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145VALUELESS CHEQUES New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24141, 6 December 1941, Page 12
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