TAKING PEOPLE DOWN
" FALSE PRETENCES " MERCHANT A SERIES OF CHARGES (Per United Press Association) GISBORNE, Aug. 14. "This man is nothing more than a false pretences merchant who goes about the country taking people down " said Senior Sergeant McNamara in the Police Court before Justices of the Peace in prosecuting David Carter, alias John Arthur Blackwell. aged 60, an engineer on a charge of being idle and disorderly, obtaining £5 from John Douglas Parminter at Wairoa by fraud, obtaining a bottle of rum valued at 15s 6d from a woman by fraud, and with a breach of the Probation Act. On the last-named charge the accused was remanded to appear at Auckland on August 21. On the idle and disorderly charge he was sentenced to 14 days in gaol. On the indictable charges, after the hearing of evidence, the accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Auckland Supreme Court for sentence.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23887, 15 August 1939, Page 10
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152TAKING PEOPLE DOWN Otago Daily Times, Issue 23887, 15 August 1939, Page 10
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