“PITIFUL TALES”
LEAD TO GAOL. AUCKLAND, Thursday. John George Moir, aged 39, a carpenter, who is said by the police to have practically lived by fraud for the past three years, pleaded guilty to-day to ten charges of obtaining money by false pretences. . The police said that Moir had a wunderful way of finding out about different people and their relatives, and then going to them and telling a hard luck story. In Wanganui he was known as Mullis, and cleared out from a boardinghouse owing £l2. In Wellington he told prominent church and social workers most pitiful tales. According to one he appeared shy and quiet at |K-st, but waxed eloquent when sympathised with. He could almost break down and weep. The magistrate. sentenced him to eight months’ imprisonment, to be followed bv 18 months’ reformative detention ‘‘You will now have another eouple of years on charity,” he told Moir. —(P.A.) '
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 April 1935, Page 5
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