FALSE PRETENCES
PRISONER’S "NAME USED j
THREE YEARS’ DETENTION
(Per Press Association) '• WELLINGTON, This Day.
Three years’ reformative detention was imposed by Mr. E. Page, S.M., on Sydney Gray Railton, alias Rodgers, aged 44, a cook, who admitted four charges of sending false telegrams and a charge of attempting to obtain 15/6 by false pretence.
The police stated that while in prison accused had learnt the name of a man in Wanganui who was prepared to assist a prisoner named Purdie on Purdie’s discharge from prison and accused sent telegrams to this man in Pur die’s name and obtained £2. Later he tried to get 14/6 from a member of the Prisoners’ Aid Society, saying he was Purdie and had a job to go to in Wanganui.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 128, 25 May 1932, Page 5
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127FALSE PRETENCES Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 128, 25 May 1932, Page 5
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