FALSE PRETENCES.
Man Obtained £4O From Woman. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, December 5. Four charges of obtaining sums totalling £4O by false pretences were admitted by Nathaniel John Reid, 44 years of age, a salesman, lie was sentenced to six months’ hard labour, to be followed by twelve months’ reformative detention. The accused told a story to Mrs G. M. Fraser, with whom he was boarding in Auckland, that he had got a job in Wellington at £7 a week but had not the 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 Wellington. According to the accused the money went in drink.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 936, 5 December 1933, Page 3
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122FALSE PRETENCES. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 936, 5 December 1933, Page 3
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