ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1932, Page 6

ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES

MANAGING DIRECTOR ACQUITTED '

SUPREME COURT AT NAPIEI.

By Telegraph.—Press Associatioa. > Napier, June 9. In the Supreme Court yesterday before the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, Ebenezer Hyslop was acquitte* on two charges of false pretences. It was alleged by the Crown that Hyslop, managing director of the Tow ist Motor Company, had knowingly made false declarations to an insurance company. 1 . ' The jury was absent for almost foW hours. The trial lasted three days. Prisoners sentenced were: John Wil* liam Burton and William Matheson, for breaking, entering and theft, 18 month*’ reformative detention; Olliver and Went, for breaking, entering and theft, thrs* years’ probation; Richard. George Clifton, for theft, two years’ reformative Attention,