FALSE PRETENCE.
MAN AND WOMAN CONVICTED. (Pbb United Phebs Association.) WELLINGTON, March 25. George Errol Coates, aged 24 years, labourer, and Constance Riddle, aged 28, on a charge of obtaining £ls 5s from the Otago Finance and Agency Company, Dunedin, by a false pretence, were to-day admitted to probation for three years by the Magistrate (Mr E. Page). He said that be had decided on this course, because there was a largo family of voting children. Accused are not marred, but there are three illegitimate children. A condition of probation was that they should marry within 14 days, and the male accused was ordered to pay back the money at the rate of 2s 6d per week.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19748, 26 March 1926, Page 9
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117FALSE PRETENCE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19748, 26 March 1926, Page 9
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