FALSE PRETENCES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11254, 5 July 1922, Page 6

FALSE PRETENCES

“A RACECOURSE GUESSER.” ' ACCUSED SENT TO GAOL. Raymond Woodward was charged, at the Police Court yesterday, with failing to comply With the terms of a probation order, with obtaining £2 from Ferdinand Kregher by means of a false pretence, and with having been found on tho Hastings racecourse, he being a person excluded from racecourses. Chief-Detective Kemp stated that accused had been seen on the Hastings racecourse by Detective Black, but had immediately loft the course when ordered to do so. He had previously been fined £lO for, a similar offence. With regard to the false pretences charge, accused had led Kregher to believe that he had a deposit of £5 in tlie Savings Bank, and in consequence of this Kregher had given him £2, in return for an order for that amount on the bank. Upon presenting the order, Kregher had learnt that accused did not have a banking account. Woodward had taken absolutely no notice of his probation order, and had not observed it for even a week. He was a “guesser” of the worst typo. On the false pretences charge, accused was sentenced to three months-’ imprisonment, and for being found on the racecourse a fine of £lO was imposed, in default two months’ imprisonment. On . the remaining charge, Woodward was renianded to appear on July 11th.