FALSE PRETENCES
Businessman Sent To Gaol MAGISTRATE’S COMMENT I Ter Press Association. J NEW PLYMOUTH, Nov. 8. Conduct which he described as “not only heartless but which dries up the spirit of charity of the general public for those less undeserving,” was attributed by Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., in the New Plymouth Police Court, to Thomas Davie, who appeared for sentence on six charges of obtaining money by false pretences and one of theft by failing to account to his employers, involving a total sum of £228 13s 2d. Sentences of imprisonment on each of the charges imposed by the magistrate totalled 17 months. Davie was manager of a New Plymouth drapery business and he obtained money from several persons, including a girl employee of the firm. “I fear that looking at your previ- I ous record of false pretences and theft not many years ago, you have come to the conclusion that you may enter upon this business as a kind of profession,” said the magistrate. “You must learn that a man who thinks he can follow this fine of conduct and get away with it is a fool—a fool even from the material aspect. I am bound to give you a severe lesson.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 266, 9 November 1937, Page 8
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206FALSE PRETENCES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 266, 9 November 1937, Page 8
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