POSED AS AVIATOR.
Farm Labourer Goes to Gaol. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 4. John Truman Wiltshire, alias John Holt, aged thirty, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to obtaining clothing valued at £l6 Is 6d from C. Smith. Ltd., and clothing valued at £ll 10s 9d from James Smith, Ltd., by false pretences. It was stated that accused, who had been working as a farm labourer, came to town, and on the strength of representing that he was taking up civil aviation, got credit from C. Smith’s and disposed of the goods to a secondhand dealer. He then got credit from James Smith’s in the name of a relative at Island Bay. From the police story, it appeared that accused had posed in America as a wealthy New Zealander. He was given four months’ imprisonment cn each charge, the sentences to be concurrent.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 364, 4 March 1932, Page 6
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