GOODS BY FALSE PRETENCE.
FOUR MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT. (PRESS ASSOCIATION MLESJRAiI.) WELLINGTON, March 4. John Truman Wiltshire, alias John Holt, aged thirty, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court ta obtaining clothing valued at £l6 Is 6d from C. Smith, Ltd., and clothing valued at £'ll 10s 3d from James Smith, Ltd., by false pretences. It was stated that accused, who had been working as a farm labourer, came .to town, and on the strength of representing that he was taking up civil aviation got credit from C. Smith's and disposed of the goods to a secondhand dealer. He then got credit from James Smith's in the name of a relative at Island Bay. From the police story, it appeared that accused had posed in America as a wealthy New Zealander. He was given four months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20488, 5 March 1932, Page 5
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143GOODS BY FALSE PRETENCE. Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20488, 5 March 1932, Page 5
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