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RUATORIA MAN’S OFFENCES THREE MONTHS’ GAOL SUM: OF £lO5 INVOLVED (Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., this, day. A young married man, Allan Keith Ludbrook, aged 26, Ruatoria. admitted in the Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, 24 charges involving obtaining credit toy fraud and the issuing of money drafts when there were no funds to meet them, and a further charge of signing a false name to a telegram. The amount involved was £lO5. His counsel, in pleading for probation, stated the accused had had his way made too easy for him in his youth and now had been pulled up with a jolt. On the charge of signing a false name to a telegram he was convicted and discharged. On one of the other charges he was sent to gaol for three months, and on the remainder of the charges he was admitted to probation for two and a half years, on condition he makes restitution at the rate of not less than £1 a week.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19980, 4 July 1939, Page 10
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