"FLIGHT OF FANCY"
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Man Poses as Aviator
(By Telegrap
AUCKLAND, Last Night. By pretending that he was a commercial air pilot, Ernest William Sampson, aged 32 years, obtained sums of money totalling £6 8/- and on his "flight of faney" he crashed wh,en he met Deteetiv© Jones in Queen street on June 15. In the Police Court to-day he pleaded gudlty to a charge of stealing £3 11/* from Elizab'eth MaeGuire and also to charges of obtaining money from Arthur Clarence Denton and John Henry Pratt by falteely representing that he was employed by Union Airways at £10 10/- per week. "Sampson has previously been in trouble and has a dozen convictions for similar offences," said Deteetive-Ser-geant McHugh. The Magistrate, Mr. W. R. McKean, renrmded Sampson that he had already served three years' Teformative detention for false pretences and sentenced him to three months' imprisonment on each of the three charges, the sentenees on two of the charges to be cumulativo
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 134, 23 June 1937, Page 4
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164"FLIGHT OF FANCY" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 134, 23 June 1937, Page 4
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