“PROFESSIONAL LOVEMAKER.”
FURTHER CHARGES PREFERRED. ( Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 14. More was heard of' “the professional love-maker” in the Police Court this morning when Cecil Granville, a bookbinder, aged 41, faced Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., on charges of stealing a three-stone diamond engagement ring valued at £lB 10s from a. girl at Waikino, and obtaining £3 10s and £5. by. falsely representing that he required money to pay a deposit on a suit. Granville pleaded guilty. - Chief Detective Hammond said that Granville had been sent to goal for six months'yesterday. He got the money from a young woman by false pretences. “ I would like to - see these people get their money back,” said Mr Hnnt. “There is no possibility of that,” said the chief detective. “He had some money in Australia, but he spent that getting back to New Zealand.. He has not given us much trouble.” “ I’ll convict him and order him to come up, for sentence within 12 months,” said the magistrate. “If at'the expiration of his present'sentence he gives,yon any further trouble I can deal with him then.” ' '
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19300616.2.83.5
Bibliographic details
Otago Daily Times, Issue 21053, 16 June 1930, Page 12
Word Count
184“PROFESSIONAL LOVEMAKER.” Otago Daily Times, Issue 21053, 16 June 1930, Page 12
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in