ALLEGED VALUELESS CHEQUE.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 65, 14 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 dheque idrawn o*l the Commercial Baiik, of Australia, and obtaining groceries valued at £45 from Humphries Cash Stores, Napier, by similar means, were admitted by Harold Avery Clayton be. fore 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, To Kuiti and Cfisborne to bo looked into. Described by Detective-Sergeant Fitzgibbon as a "washing Tip," 11 charges df false pretences involving £l2 10s, were preferred against George Henry Ellis, aged 2. Ellis who pleaded gnllty to all the charges, is at present serving a. term of six months' for similar offences in various parts of the North Island Eilis obtained money by representing that he would employ persons in a garage at Peton© and cause them to bo enrolled in the Mechanics' Union. In cno case he obtained £3 6a from a woman, it being the wages df her sen, whom accused induced to leavo his jobEllis was remanded till next Monday for sentence.