‘HAD A WONDERFUL WAY’
MAN LIVES ON CHARITY EIGHT MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT. TELLER OF HARD LUCK STORIES. CHARGE OF FALSE PRETENCES. . By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, April 18. . John George Moir, aged 39, a carpenter, said by the police to have practically lived by fraud for the past three years, pleaded guilty to-day to ten charges of obtaining money by false pretences. ' . The police said that Moir-had a wonderful way of finding out about different people and their relatives, and then going to them and telling a hard luck'story. In Wanganui he was known as Mullis and cleared out from a boarding-house owing £l2. In Wellington he went around prominent church and social workers telling most pitiful tales. According to offe informant he appeared shy and quiet at first, but waxed eloquent when sympathised with. He could almost break down and weep. The magistrate sentenced him to eight months’ imprisonment, followed by 18 months’ reformative detention. “You will now have another couple of years on charity,” he told Moir.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 April 1935, Page 9
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