"BAREFACED FRAUDS"
For what were described as " barefaced and ingenious frauds," Fred Calvert, aged 30, canvasser, of Middleton, Leeds, was at the Quarter Sessions there recently sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. Cdivert. who had been previously c evicted, represented to shopkeepers in districts where there were no bus services that Leeds Corporation intended to start services there.
felling the shopkeepers that there would be slopping places outside their premises he asked for money for advertising spaces in a bus time table, which, stated Mr G. R. Hinchclifle, prosecuting e.xifted only in his imagination
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23055, 4 December 1936, Page 3
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