AN ADVERTISING FRAUD.
ONE MONTH'S IMPRISONMENT. A young man named Kobert Earner has been perpetrating an ingenious imposture in several of the suburbs lately. A handbook, known as the Union Time Table, contains the express notice that advertisements may be published in it at the rate of _!4 for each page per annum, and £2 10s for each half page. Trusting, in many cases rightly, that people would not notice the intimation, Homer falsely represented himself as a canvasser for advertisements, and secured them at whatever prices he could get. At) the Police Court yesterday he pleaded "Guilty" to obtaining 3s , from William Bowden (.Sydenham), 5s from Robert W. Todd, 7s 6d from Albert C. Baldwin (Addington), 5s from Elizabeth Melhuish (Linwood), 10s from Noah Lines ! (l_>wer Riocarton), and 5s from Margaret ■ Foster, by means of this false pretence. llt was afleged also that the accused obI tamed advertisements for a programme i which he was going to publish in Carnival ' w.ek. About' 2000 copies were printed, hut were never sent for or distributed. Mr Donnelly, who appeared for trie man, said that, with regard to the time-table, some receipts were perhaps the result of fraud, and others of misunderstanding, but there were too many cases for him to have hoped to secure nn'acquittal on all. The other matter would, in any case, be breach of contract, and not fraud. The accused had served an apprenticeship of eight years with a Christchurch dentist, and had always borne an excellent character until about eight months ago, when he Took *o liquor. Any frauds of which he might be guilty were committed to get money for drink. He had been well educated and well brou.ht up, and it would serve no purpose to make a criminal of him by sending him to gaol. The sums were very small, "and restitution would be made in case of discharge. Sergeant Bottike said that he had sometiling to add to Mr Donnelly's statement Mr Small promised to do bis best to get work for the man. The Bench pointed out that there were a number of charges, and the impostures had been very deliberate. It was a serious matter, but they would be so fax lenient as to inflict a penalty of one month's imprisonment on one charge, convicting and discharging the accused on the rest.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11488, 22 January 1903, Page 2
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391AN ADVERTISING FRAUD. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11488, 22 January 1903, Page 2
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