PARTICULARLY CRUEL FRAUD
SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT. Br Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Sept. 30. “These frauds were particularly cruel, and I have no faith in your statement that you will make restitution,” stated Mr. Justice Smith today in sentencing Wilfred Harold Adams, aged 28, to three years’ hard labour for false pretences and obtaining credit by fraud. . Adams had pleaded, guilty to duping a woman and taking from her £337, telling her his uncle Charlie in Remuera was about to give liim money to start in business. - Cedric Horace Saunders was sentenced to two years’ hard labour, for theft at Rawene. He had previously been on probation.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1929, Page 14
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