New Plymouth SJ. Court

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 98, 30 August 1923, Page 2

New Plymouth SJ. Court

VALUELESS CHEQUES. On six charges of obtaining goods and money, by means of valueless cheques, Montague Henry Penuycuick, an habitual criminal, who is at present serving a sentence of 12 months’ imprisonment for forgery and uttering, was sentenced by Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M., yesterday morning ot six months’ imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently with the term now being served. Pennycuick pleaded guilty and elected to be dealt with summarily. Iho charges were that at Hawera on July she obtained £4 10s from Percy Cox by meang of a cheque signed “H, J, Ellis”; on July 9 at Hawera, £5 Os 6d from James Patrick Hoarn, the cheque being signed “W, R, Ellis”; on July 18, £G 15s 6d, and goods valued at Bs, from John Stoddart Wilson, Hie cheque being signed “W. R. Johnson” and endorsed “W. R. Jones”; at Stratford on July 21, £G 18s 6d from William Darragh with a cheque signed ‘H. Parsonson”; July 28 at Palmerston North, £4 7s in money and goods valued at 18 s from John Had-' field, and on July 3 at the same place, £l 17s 6d and goods valued at 15s from Percy John Wagstaff. YOUNG MAN’S ESCAPADE. , Clifford Capon, a young man, pleaded guilty to having converted to his own uso a motor lorry valued at £l5O, belonging to William Jones, of Okofce, and was sentenced to imprisonment for one month.