FALSE PRETENCES
WOMAN VICTIMISED By T«*!ctrrnDb Prrw Association WELLINGTON, December 5. Four charges of obtaining sums totalling £4O by false pretences were admitted by Nathaniel John Reid (44), salesman. He was sentenced to six months' hard labour, to be followed by 12 months' reformative treatment. He told a story to Mrs G. M. Fraser in Auckland, with whom he was boarding. that he had go? a job in Wellington at £7 a week, but had not money to get to it. She lent him £ls, and another £5 the following day. and subsequently two further amounts of £lO each, in response to wires from . . According to himself, the money went in drink.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19666, 7 December 1933, Page 4
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112FALSE PRETENCES Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19666, 7 December 1933, Page 4
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