FATHER AT HIS WIT’S END

Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1930, Page 8

FATHER AT HIS WIT’S END

PROBATION FOR FALSE PRETENCES By Te!«greph.—Press Association. Wellington, Aug. 20. Tn th© Magistrate’s Court, Ebenzer Martin Swinerd was admitted to probation for three years on a charge of obtaining money and goods to the value of £3O 18s 7d by means of valueless cheques, and on twelve other charges of false pretences was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within three years. Accused admitted the charges. Sub-Inspector Ward said accused was a married man with four children. The cause of his trouble was gambling and unemployment. Mr. Meltzer, for accused, said that it was one of the most distressing eases which had come under his notice for some time. The offences were committed when accused was at his wits’ end with a wife and four starving children to keep.