UNPAID TAXI FARE
AN INTERESTING CASE FRAUD CHARGE DISMISSED. £ Par Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, June 26. An interesting legal point arose, in the Magistrate’s Court to-day in a case in which Leslie Gordon Dunn, aged 23, was charged with drunkenness and v'th obtaining credit by fradulently incurring a debt for taxi hire for £1 3s. Accused hired a taxi and at the end of the journey found he ’ ad only one shilling in his pocket. He said that he Thought he had money and could not understand where it had gone. The Magistrate said that he was not satisfied that fraud had been intended. The case differed .somewhat from that of a man going into a restaurant and obtaining a meal under false pretences. Accused was convicted for drunkenness and the second charge was dismissed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20183, 27 June 1928, Page 8
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134UNPAID TAXI FARE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20183, 27 June 1928, Page 8
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