FARMER DEFRAUDED
SALESMAN SENT TO GAOL. [ Per Press Association. 1 AUCKLAND, Afay 16. Jack Walker, aged 32, a salesman, was sentenced to-day to three years’ hard labour for conspiring to defraud a farmer. Air, Justice Smith, before sentencing him, read a cablegram from the Vancouver police describing accused as a card sharper and coin matcher. It was quite clear that he had practised as a confidence man. The sura, involved in the conspiracy was £5BO, of which accused alleged that he got only £lB3. Accused had told a detective that be thought. New Zealand a great little country and there was a lot of money to be made in Rotorua by a couple of good men, “but I would want a little protection. We would give you 5 per cent, and guarantee that we would only take on visitors and never touch New Zealanders.” The Judge added: “When you got out of gaol it will be as well for you to leave the country.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 114, 17 May 1933, Page 6
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164FARMER DEFRAUDED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 114, 17 May 1933, Page 6
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