CREDIT BY FRAUD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 158, 10 May 1940, Page 5

CREDIT BY FRAUD

YOUNG MAN CHARGED ADMITTED TO PROBATION: "When in Opotiki this young man was talking rather big. He spoke of buying a fish business at about £450 cash ,and led people to believe that he was in a big way," said Detective-Sergeant R. H. Waterson in the Gisborne Police Court on Monday when Victor Howard Boyd, aged 24, a labourer, Auck-. land, appeared before Messrs F. J. H. Ellisdon and T. Corson, J.P.'s, on a charge of obtaining credit by fraud amounting to £4 19s 9d from Roe and Payne, printers, Opotiki. Boyd pleaded guilty and was placed | on probation for one year and ordered to make restitution. Detec-tive-Sergeant Waterson said that on April 19 Boyd had called at the office of the Opotiki News and got some advertisements and tickets printed for a dance, which returned £6 15s, and £4 of that was paid out in expenses. Boyd made no effort to pay for the printing. He was arrested in Gisborne on Saturday by Constable G. Waple. He had been before the court four ago on a charge of theft. He was a married man living apart from his wife, and had not been in good health. The accused was i a barman by occupation, but had not been in work for some months. Suppression of his name was AH I fused.