FALSE PRETENCES
MAN SENT TO GAOL. [ Per Press Association. I WELLINGTON, Dec. 5. Four charges of obtaining sums totalling £4O by false pretences were admitted by Nathaniel John Reid, aged 44, salesman. He was sentenced to six months’ hard labour, to be followed by 12 months’ reformative detention. He told a story to Mrs. G. M. Fraser, in Auckland, with whom he was boarding, that he had a job at Wellington at £7 a week, but had not the money to get to it. She lent him £l5 and another £5 tho following day, and subsequently two further amounts of £lO each in response to wires from Wellington. According to himself the money went in drink.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 288, 6 December 1933, Page 7
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116FALSE PRETENCES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 288, 6 December 1933, Page 7
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