OBTAINED CREDIT BY FRAUD
REFORMATIVE DETENTION TERM. Reformative detention for six months was on Saturday' imposed on Peter Vernon Hilary' Max-well, who had admitted obtaining credit by fraud. Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., said he could not accede to the request for probation made by counsel when Maxwell was charged last Wednesday'. Maxwell had not been frank with the police and he had a previous conviction, i
The circumstances of the case were explained by the police when the case was mentioned last week. Maxwell, who had been a porter in a hotel in New Plymouth was in hospital in April. ‘ He put up at the Midland Hotel in Wellington after leaving New Plymouth with £5 in his pocket. The tariff at the Midland was 25s a day, and he ran up a total bill of £lB 19s 6d. . The manager spoke to him about his bill and he replied that a cheque was coming to him from New Plymouth. On May 25 he left the hotel, taking his things, without paying.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1930, Page 10
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