FALSE PRETENCES
MAN SENT TO GAOL JUDGE’S STERN COMMENT [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, May 9. ‘•'My client embarked on a sea of company pi emotion, and many older men have been wrecked on that dangerous sea. ’ said Mr Noble, in the Supremo Court, in pleading for leniency on behalf of John Hartland Pierson, 24, agent, who had been found guilty on two charges of false pre- * fences involving £250 and one of theft i involving £391 8s Id. The Judge said that the prisoner 1 thought he would be able to hoodwink * the jury by suggesting that two of j the women complainants in the ’ease ■ had become infatuated with him, and ’ this was why they advanced the : monev to him. This suggestion was : rightly not believed. Although the • prisoner had an honest appearance, he was a man who preyed on women and attacked their honour. Prisoner was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment. with hard labour, to be followed by reformative detention for a period not exceeding three years
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 6
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169FALSE PRETENCES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 109, 10 May 1934, Page 6
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