BOND OF £l0 REQUIRED

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11295, 22 August 1922, Page 4

BOND OF £lo REQUIRED

SEND £1 NOW PEOPLE GULLED BY BOGUS ADVERTISEMENT. ACCUSED SENT TO GAOL. Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., delivered sentence at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on John Wesley AHott, the grocer’s assistant who had previously appeared before Mr W. G. Riddell on the following nineteen charges of false pretences and had been remanded to enable the police to further their inquiries concerning his previous record: — (1) That on August 16th,1922, at Wellington, with intent to defraud, he did obtain the sum of £1 from Alexander Good, J. H. Hudson, R- Bourke, John McFerran, Arthur Lambie, A. E. Reed, W. P. Brown. Gilbert Dodds, A. J. Jones, S. Sands, W. L. Archibald, Alvin Buckly, A. W. Marley, C. M. Pilkinton, E. B. Brannihan, Owen Hannifin, Albert Williams, F. H. Ball, Douglas Pulsford, by means of a certain false pretence, to wit, by means of an advertisement to the effect that the firm of H- B. Saxon and Company required a salesman, knowing that such u firm did net exist and that the Advertisement was false. Chief-Detective Kemp prosecuted and Mr D. Perry appeared for the accused. The chief-detective explained that, although no specific examples could be given, accused’s general character was bad. This was indicated by a report submitted by the Hamilton polioe. Allott’s activities had not been confined only to one district. An advertisement, similar to the one published in Wellington, had been inserted in a Dunedin paper and to this some thirty-seven replies had been sent. The postal authorities, however, had refused to hand over the letters until accused could give more substantial proof of ins identity. To get over this difficulty Allotto had then sent a telegram to a mysterious Mr Soy at a Wellington hotel. Hel had then proceeded to Welfihgoon, and after collecting the telegram from the hotel had used it as proof to the local postal officials, that he was the representative of the company in question. Mr Perry said that the accused was a married man and had two children, who, if he were sent to gaol, would be a burden on either his relatives or the State. Allott had employment to which he could go, if the case were met with a fine. Any deficiencies in the moneys obtained would be immediately made good. The chief-detective pointed cut that) some of the men who bad been defrauded also were married. His Worship: There is something deliberate about this man’s and the case cannot therefore be leniently dealt with. Accused is sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each of the first two charges and convicted and discharged on the others.