ALLEGED VALUELESS CHEQUE.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 64, 13 October 1930, Page 5

ALLEGED VALUELESS CHEQUE.

FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE. NAPIER, Last Night. Charges of obtaining articles of clothing valued at £33 from Cox and Co., Napier, by means of a valueless dheqjtte dirawn on the Commercial Baulk of Australia, and obtaining groceries valued at £45 from Humphries Cash Stores, Napier, by similar means, were admitted 'by Harold Avery Clayton before Mr, A, M. Mowle, S.M., this morning. In applying (for a remand for a week, (which was granted. Detect-ive-Sergeant Fitsgibbon, said there were other charges at Auckland, Te Kuiti and Gisberne to ho looked into. Descrihed by Detective-Sergeant Fitzgibbon, as a "washing up," H charges df false pretences involving £l2 10s, were preferred against George Henry Ellis, aged 2. Ellis wJio pleaded gn'dty to all the charges, is at present serving a. term of six months' for similar offences in various parts of the North Island Ellis obtained money by representing thai he would employ persons in ;* garage at Petdne and! cause them to ho on rolled in thel Mechanics' Union. In one case hoj obtained £3 5s from a woman, if being the wages df her sen, whoni accused induced to leave his job. M Ellis was remanded till nexl Monday for sentence. fl