FALSE PRETENCES
LABOURER SENT TO GAOL. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, February 10. Charles Patrick McCarthy, aged 40, a labourer, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on a charge, heard before the Magistrate, of obtaining money by false pretences. He went to the door of a house where the son answered and he told the son his father had given him an order for a handbag, but he had been in hospital and had been unable to fulfil it before. The son handed him £l, but on taking the bag inside found it was worth only a few shillings. When seen by the police the accused had another bag in his possession and said he had bought the bag for'’ 2/11 at a wellknown Wellington store.
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Southland Times, Issue 22813, 12 February 1936, Page 3
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126FALSE PRETENCES Southland Times, Issue 22813, 12 February 1936, Page 3
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