FALSE PRETENCES
SHOPKEEPERS VICTIMISED OFFENDER SENT TO PRISON. WELLINGTON, March 4. John Truman Wiltshire, alias John Holt, aged 30, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to obtaining clothing valued at £l6 Is Gd from C. Smith, Ltd., and clothing valued at £ll 10s 9d from James Smith, Ltd., by false pretences. It w’as stated that the accused had been working as a farm labourer and came to town. On the strength of representing that he was taking up civil aviation, he got credit at C. Smith’s, and disposed of the goods to a secondhand dealer. He then got credit from James Smith in the name of a relative at .Island Bay. From the police story it appeared that the accused had posed in America as a wealthy New Zealander. He was given sentences of four months’ imprisonment, to be concurrent on each charge.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4069, 8 March 1932, Page 65
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143FALSE PRETENCES Otago Witness, Issue 4069, 8 March 1932, Page 65
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