MAORIS MULCTED.

NZ Truth, Issue 935, 27 October 1923, Page 5

MAORIS MULCTED.

Shoddy Suit Belting Scheme.

(Prom "Truth's" Taranaki Rep.)

Selling suits to Maoris and collecting a deposit was the career adopted by a Joker for the time being under tho name of Stanley Edward Dombush alias Dom Bush for the purpose of taking advantage of the mug Who Is born every minute He rn-st have done pretty well at It for Detective-Sergeant John Coonoy explained at New Plymouth last week, when Dombush wna the occupant of tho dock, that he had SYSTEMATICALLY WORKED tho Auckland. Waikato, Pending and several other districts at the frame. Dombush'B career was cut Rhort at Levin m August when he was given three months on two chnrgca of having obtained the deposits from Maoris by falsely representing: that he was a tailors representative. Ho was thon taken to Hamilton where ho got 18 months' reformative detention on 22 charges of a similar nature, the sentence to commence at the expiry of tho present term of three raontht. At New Plymouth thirteen charges Involving ouma totalling £12 iOs were preferred against him. Dombuah tried to mako out that ho had ALREADY PLEADED OUILTY at Hamilton to this last list of charges, but Detective-Sergeant Coonoy «Ud that the Hamilton police had tele- ' graphed that this wa,a not «o. | A month on each charge; was award- ! cd by Magistrate Mowlem to allow the accused, who then pleaded guilty, time i !n which to devise a more honest way j of earning a crust. \