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STORY OF: £14,000 BEQUEST. ~ . - .. .-X. _ (By, Telegraph: Press Association.) -••;"' » /AUCKLAND, This Day. Two charges of obtaining money by lajse pretences were preferred; against Reed, aged 42, salesman, in the* Police Court yesterday. He plea#d guilty. , Detective Sergeant. Kelly said that fetlselytold Florence Adams; that he was "to receive^l4-000,, from the est ate of /his father, who had recently died in 'Dnnedin. On {he strength ;'of this i epresentation accused was ; ; lent £5. Accused then»:came to Auckland and borrowed £3 10s from,; John |Wisdom by presehfatioii:/ This 'Oeularly mean, one, as Mr;;Shackleford *had been, a "friend .'of accused's ' Ateuaed had no.prospect of reccivsaid'Mr'KeUy. His .ftfther's estate had been sworn at p3SQO and. 'accused a ••fceneficiary on age of GSL He therefore had 23 ye£rs to wait. A.ccu3ed had previously- been "in trouble and had - served -. tw>o short terms of imprisonment. i ,-■■,, The magistrate;-Mr Y.? K. Hunt, passed sentence ofytSu'ee,- muxiths' im;:followed,' -■ by 12 months' f i?on. Restitution was ordered to
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Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3392, 24 December 1931, Page 8
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