ROBBED OF MONEY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20067, 13 October 1939, Page 11

ROBBED OF MONEY

GIRL LEFT DESTITUTE CARPENTER GAOLED (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The story of how a young man robbed a girl of all her money, was unfolded in the Police Court to-day when Leonard Inglis Spence, aged 25, an unemployed carpenter, pleaded guilty to four charges of false representations and also a breach of his probation. The charges included obtaining £25 from Mrs. Edith Beck and sums of £4O. £l6 and £l9 from Ruby Millen Ferguson. “During the time he was courting Mrs. Beck’s daughter, he got to know Miss Ferguson,” said Detective-Sergt. McHugh. “He kept at her till he had every penny she possessed and left her destitute. He is an out-and-out fraud and did the same kind of thing some time ago. He always preys upon women.” The magistrate, Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, said it was a mean and contemptible offence. Spence had been admitted to probation on three occasions. - He would he sentenced to three months’ imprisorrment for a breach of his probation, three months’ hard labour for obtaining £l6 to be followed by 15 months’ reformative detention, the two sentences of three months to be concurrent. On the three other charges, he was admitted to probation for three years and was ordered to make restitution of all the amounts.