FALSE PRETENCES
SALESMAN ADMITS CRIMES FICTITIOUS STORY OF LEGACY (Per United Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, May 17. " I trusted him implicitly.” said Rex Eldred Smith, a sharemilker, of Ukaiawa, when relating at New Plymouth how lan Carr Douglas, aged 23, married, a salesman, had practised falsi* pretences upon him. Carr, who admitted two charges of false pretences and one of forgery, was commuted to the Supreme Court for sentence. Unusual methods of gaining the confidence of his victims were used by Carr as a result of which he traded in Smith’s 1928 model car for a 1938 model. The offences, all of which were committed about March 31, were—-ob-taining a motor car valued at £BO by representing that his mother had lefl him £BOOO and that he would deposit £4OO to Smith's credit in the Hawera Bank: obtaining a motor car valued at £430 from W. R. Phillips, Dominion Motors, Ltd., by representing that he was Rex Eldred Smith, that he had been left £BOOO by an aunt, that the 1928 car was his property, and that he had an account in the Bank of Australasia; and forging the name of Rex Eldred Smith to a promissory note for £4OO 10s 3d in favour of Dominion Motors, Ltd.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23811, 18 May 1939, Page 16
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208FALSE PRETENCES Otago Daily Times, Issue 23811, 18 May 1939, Page 16
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