A CAREER OF FRAUD.
BREACH OF PROBATION. ENGLISH TRAVELLER IN TROUBLE. (Re» United Pbess absolution.) : „ CHRISTCHURCH, September 30. ilia career has been one of fraud. He has defrauded everyone who has tricd s to treat hitu. decently,” said Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, speaking °£ Stephen Harold Smedley. Smedlev, a traveller, aged 30, who comes from England, was charged with failing to comply tiod *' erms release on probaprobation officer said that in July. 1929, at Dunedin, Smedley had been admitted to probation for a year on three charges of false pretences, reduced from charges of forgery. He had been ordered to'make restitution of the amount involved (£l3 9s). He had not, _ however, done so, and his general conduct had not been satisfactory. The accused was sentenced to three month in gaol on one of the original charges. ' . .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21145, 1 October 1930, Page 8
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140A CAREER OF FRAUD. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21145, 1 October 1930, Page 8
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