THEFTS FROM WIDOW
A MATRIMONIAL FRAUD (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 12. "Your crime has resulted in the cruel plundering of a substantial amount of the resources left to a widow by her husband. Within a few months you got over £6OO and dissipated it," said his Honor Mr Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court this morning, when sentencing Arthur Herbert Greening to'lß months’ imprisonment on five counts of theft. It was stated in evidence that Greening met the widow through a matrimonial advertisement.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25303, 13 August 1943, Page 6
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82THEFTS FROM WIDOW Otago Daily Times, Issue 25303, 13 August 1943, Page 6
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