HEARTLESS FRAUDS
SALUTARY SENTENCE By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, December 18. Described as the originator of a get-rich-quick agency, Sidney Alexander Wright (28), a salesman, was sentenced to-day to six months’ imprisonment to be followed by two years’ reformative detention. He pleaded guilty to seven charges of stealing £65 from women and four of false pretences. The police said that accused promised seven girls a job as manageress cf a cookery shop at 32/6 a week. He asked them to put up bonds which ranged from £ls to £5. Accused had started another get-rich-quick agency this month. The Magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt, said that accused had committed heartless frauds by robbing poor women. His excuse that he had a wife and child availed him nothing.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19986, 19 December 1934, Page 8
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125HEARTLESS FRAUDS Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19986, 19 December 1934, Page 8
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