FALSE PRETENCES
MONEY OBTAINED FROM WOMEN ACCUSED BELIES HIS APPEARANCE. (Pee United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 9. “My client embarked on a sea of company promotion and many older men have been wrecked on that dangerous sea,” said Mr Noble in the Supreme Court today when pleading for leniency on behalf of John Hartland Pierson, aged 24, an agent, who had been found guilty on two charges of false pretences involving £250, and one of theft, involving £391 8s Id. The judge said the prisoner thought he would be able to hoodwink the jury l by suggesting that two of the women complainants in the case had become infatuated with him and -, that was why they had advanced money to him. This suggestion was rightly not believed. Although the prisoner had an honest appearance he was a man who preyed on women and attacked their honour.
The prisoner was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment with hard labour, to be followed by reformative detention for’ a period not exceedin'! three years.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22258, 10 May 1934, Page 11
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170FALSE PRETENCES Otago Daily Times, Issue 22258, 10 May 1934, Page 11
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