SAID HE HAD JOB ON A NEWSPAPER.
SELWYN JOYCE RAISED MONEY ALL OVER N.Z. BY FALSE PRETENCES. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, December 5. In the Police Court, Selwyn Joyce, described as a journalist, on several charges of false pretences committed throughout the t Dominion, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. he police statement showed that, by various stories, mostly to the effect that he wanted fares to take him to Wellington, Christchurch or elsewhere, to join newspaper staffs, accused obtained money from people all over New Zealand. Counsel said that accused had been a journalist on the “ New York imes," the “ oronto Telegram,” the “ Dallas Times ” and the “ London Daily Telegraph,” and had served in the Boer War and in the Great War. He had lost all his means through a lawyer’s breach of trust in Australia. Accused was a careful man, who gave all his money to his wife. In sentencing accused, the Magistrate remarked that 'he seemed to have spread himself all over New Zealand.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18629, 5 December 1928, Page 11
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