FALSE REPRESENTATIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 156, 4 July 1934, Page 6

FALSE REPRESENTATIONS

SUM OF MONEY OBTAINED < Per Press Association ). AUCKLAND, July 3. George John Boyd, aged 37, appeared in the Police Court chargeu with obtaining from Laurence Collins £l2 by falsely representing that he *as a captain in the Royal Air Force iad was receiving £6OOO in back pay. The police produced accused’s signed statement, in which he said he was a relief worker. He told Collins, who is a partner in a radio business, that he would invest £lOOO in the firm. He told Collins that he owned his own house and had bought a section to build a theatre. These statements were false, as also was the assertion about £6OOO back pay. He had also falsely represented that his father was Sir Allen B. Boyd, principal medical officer for Great Britain. There were other negotiations. He had received only £l2 from Collins and intended to repay it. He was the father of seven children and had committed the fraud to get money to keep them. H e had in fact been an acting-captain in the R.A.F., from which he was discharged in May, 1919, with a good character. The magistrate remn-. ',•>! accused until July 9 for sentence and asked the probation officer to inquire into the truth of accused’s representation that ho expected to receive some money from his father in England. “It mar be only a pack of lies, said the magistrate. 4 4 1 f he expects to receive money there must bo some SOmmunicatior t<> v up.