FALSE PRETENCES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 5

FALSE PRETENCES.

SALESMAN FOR SENTENCE. DEBTS TO BOOKMAKERS. WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Six charges of obtaining sums of money totalling £264 by false pretence i were admitted by Thomas Davie, aged ; 45, salesman, in the Magistrate's Court j to-day. He was committed by Mr. J. L. ! Stout, S.M., to the Supreme Court for I sentence. Debts to bookmakers were I given by Davie in a statement made to | Detective G. Hogan and read by him in i Court as the reason for the offences. | "I did not benefit myself to any | extent from the proceeds of the crimes." ■ Davie said in the statement. "I was ! influenced by a man mixed up in the | racing game who told me if I could find 1 money he would tell me on what horses I to put it on to make a substantial profit, j He also took some of the money him- , self, which he was supposed to put on | racehorse*. ' '*1 came to the stage when I realised ; this inan was taking me down, but it . was then too late, as I had obtained I money from people, and had no possibility of tlwn making nny repayments. When I realised I could not repay the people whom 1 had defrauded. I left Wellington and obtained work in the country, where I intended sendinr sow of my wages each week tc «arioi<u ! people I had defrauded."