VALUELESS CHEQUES
RAILWAY AND TAXI DEFRAUDED MAGISTRATE IMPOSES GAOL. “This man is at present undergoing a sentence of three months’ imprisonment for a breach, of his probation order,” stated Chief-Detective Ward yesterday morning when James Warden Williams, a painter, aged 32, admitted a charge of fraudulently ob-r taining £1 10s credit from Percy Elliott Thomson for hire of a taxi-car. Williams further admitted obtaining a first-class single railway ticket from Auckland to Thorndon by moans of a cheque drawn on the Bank of New Zealand, Wellington South, for the sum of £3 6s. The magistrate (Air E. Page, S,M.> imposed a sentence of three months’ imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to he served concurrently, and upon the expiration of the present sentence.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12458, 28 May 1926, Page 4
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