FALSE PRETENCES PROVED
GAOL SENTENCES FOR TWO MEN. GOODS OBTAINED FROM SHOPS. False pretences were admitted by Thomas Joseph Spalding in the New Plymouth Police Court yesterday, ami he was sentenced to two months’ hard labour concurrently on each of two charges. Senior-Sergeant McCrorie said that on October 2 Spalding obtained from the store of J. S. Fox, Okato, two tins of 50 cigarettes, and some biscuits, by representing that he had been sent by a man named Howie, of Tataraimakn. At Palmerston North on September 12 he obtained go ds valued at £1 8s lid from Janies Walker by representing that he had been sent by A. C. Hartley. He had been convicted at Napier for. supplying liquor to Natives and was to serve three months’ imprisonment under two warrants. Three months’ hard labour was the sentence imposed yesterday on Douglas Thomas Rodgers, who was recently convicted in New Plymouth on seven charges of false pretences by issuing valueless cheques. Mr. C. White pointed out that Rodgers had been in custody for nearly four weeks. “I can find no reason for granting probation,” said Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1928, Page 12
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