FALSE PRETENCE ADMITTED

Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1930, Page 7

FALSE PRETENCE ADMITTED

VALUELESS CHEQUES ISSUED.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. Charges of obtaining articles of clothing valued at £33 from Cox and Co., Napier, by means of a valueless cheque drawn on the Commercial Bank of Australia, and obtaining groceries valued at £45 from Humphries Cash Stores, Napier, by similar means, were admitted by Harold Avery Clayton before Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., this morning. In applying for a remand for a week, which was granted, Detective-Sergeant Fitsgibbon said there were other charges at Auckkland, Te Kuiti and Gisborne to be looked' into. Described by Detective-Sergeant Fitzgibbon as a “washing-up,” 11 charges of false pretences involving £l2 lbs. were preferred against George Henry Ellis, aged 23. Ellis, who pleaded guilty to all the charges, is at present serving a term of six months’ gaol for similar offences in various parts of the North Island. Ellis obtained money by representing that he would employ persons in a garage at Petane and cause them to be enrolled in the Mechanics’ Union. In one ease he obtained £3 ss. from a woman, it being the wages of her son, whom accused induced to leave a job.

Ellis was remanded till next Monday for sentence. '