FALSE PRETENCES
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"One oi Type Who Come From Old Country CHEMIST GAOLED
(fiy Telegraph-
WELLINGTON, This Day. Described by the police as one of the type of man who come in fromi the Old Country frequently with the idea that they can impose on the people of this country ad lib, John Alexander Campbell Creighton, aged 27, a chemist, pleaded guilty to charges of false pretences involving a total of £35. Creighton urged that he was not * criminal and claimed that all the offences occurred in a few days while he was drinking heavily. He said that he had been working with a construction company with pick and shovel. The Magistrate: How long for? An hour? Creighton: No. For a fortnight. Sentence of eix months' hard labour was imposed on one charge, and he wag ordered to come up if called upon within six months on the others.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 88, 30 April 1937, Page 5
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150FALSE PRETENCES Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 88, 30 April 1937, Page 5
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