SIX MONTHS' GAOL.
Man Defrauded Insurance „ Companies. Per press Association. AUCKLAND, October 1. A sentence of six months’ imprisonment. to be followed by eighteen months’ reformative detention, was passed by Mr W. R. M’Kean, S.M., in the Police Court on Leonard Lock, a labourer, aged forty years, who had been convicted on fourteen charges of obtaining sums from insurance companies by using false names and representing that he had never been previously insured and had never previously claimed against an insurance company. The amount concerned totalled £lB7 10s. It was stated that in the past four years accused had claimed under different names for twenty-five accidents.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 2 October 1934, Page 4
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106SIX MONTHS' GAOL. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 2 October 1934, Page 4
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