CONVICTION OF A SWINDLER.
Wellington, This day. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday a respectably dressed young man named Charles Walter Dixon, avlio it is believed hails from the South, received threo months' imprisonment under tho Vagrant Act, He had been victimising a number of tradesmen by AA'hat is known as "ringing the change." There were tAventy-one charges laid against him, and he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each of three informations, the sentences to be concurrent. The police AvithdreAV the remainder of the charges.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3858, 28 November 1883, Page 3
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86CONVICTION OF A SWINDLER. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3858, 28 November 1883, Page 3
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