FALSE PRETENCES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 January 1932, Page 5

FALSE PRETENCES

A GIRL’S LAPSE. Posing as a “Mrs. Landseer,” Doiis Isobel Board, domestic, aged 18, went on December 1G last to a Wellington land agent and took a furnished house, 14, Margaret Street, Wadestown, at a weekly rental of £3 3s. She paid two weeks in advance, and two days later went to the North British Insurance Company and insured the furniture in the house under her assumed name. She then went to the Mutual Loan and Deposit Company, but was unsuccessful in obtaining a loan of £4O on the furniture.

These facts were told t-o Mr. T. B. McNeil, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday by Detective-Sergeant Revcll, when Board was charged with attempting to obtain £4O from the Mutual Loan and Deposit Company by false pretences, and with stealing goods from the house in Margaret Street to the value of £2 10s. Accused pleaded guilty, and the magistrate admitted her to probation for two years. The magistrate refused to make an order for suppression of her name, particularly, ho said, in view of the transaction with the loan company. “She may he only 18 years old, but she is pretty experienced. ’ ’ The detective-sergeant said that accused had been in touch with a man who was a stranger to the city, but he had since disappeared. She had never been before the court before, and did not seem to realise the seriousness of the offence.

One of the terms of the probation order was that ac| used should ii/oi associate with the man with whom she had been keeping company.