FOR FALSE PRETENCES
THREE YEARS’ HARD LABOUR [ Per Press Association. ] DUNEDIN, Feb. 11. At the Supreme Court, Mr Justice Rood sentenced George Thomas Swann to three years’ hard labour on four charges of false pretences. Mr Hanlon, in a plea for leniency, stated that it had been said that sums totalling £20,000 were involved, but a search of books and papers showed that at most it was £6OOO or £7OOO.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19765, 12 February 1927, Page 7
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70FOR FALSE PRETENCES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19765, 12 February 1927, Page 7
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