CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL.
YOUTH PLEADS GUILTY - AT MILTON. DUNEDIN, October 31. A special sitting of the Police Court was held at the Milton Courthouse this morning. A Milton youth named ’Albert George Ashton was charged on remand on two counts of writing brackmail letters. He was charged first that on or about October 13, 1930, he did, with a menace, demand from David Moyes the sum of £4O, with intent to steal. The second charge against Ashton was that on October 8, 1930, with, intent to defraud by means of a certain false pretence, to wit by falsely representing that he was a single woman named Violet Manton, who had given birth to a child in August, 1930, and required the sum of £35 10s to pay doctor's and confinement expenses, he Bid attempt to obtain from Jonathan Begg the sum of £35 10s by means of the said false pretence. Accused pleaded guilty to both charges and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.—(PA.)
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Wairarapa Age, 1 November 1930, Page 5
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