HEARTLESS FRAUDS
MAN SENT TO GAOL GET-RIGH-QUICK AGENCY (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Described as the originator of a get-rich-quick agency, Sidney Alexander Wright, 28, a salesman, was sentenced to-day to six months’ hard labor, to be followed by two .years’ reformative detention. He pleaded guilty to seven charges of stealing £65 from women, and four of false pretences. The police said the accused promised seven girls a. job as manageress of a cookery shop at 32s 6d a week. He asked them to put up bonds-, which ranged from £ls to £5. The accused had started another gct-rich-quick agency t-lris month. The magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, said the accused had committed heartless frauds by robbing poor women. The excuse that he had a wife and child availed him nothing.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18583, 18 December 1934, Page 13
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