FALSE PRETENCES
Case Before Napier Court / "He seems to spend a good deal of his time in gaol, and work does not interest him at all," said Detectivo-Sergeant H. Nuttall in the Napier Magistrate's Court this morning when Lennox Gordon HcMillan pleadcd guilty to two charges of false pretences. He was sentencea to three months' hard labour on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent, but cumulative to six months at present being served on similar charges. He was charged that, on August 25, at Wanganui, with intent to defraud, he did obtain from Charles Leith McDonald, by means of a valueless cheque, the sum of £3, and • on the f ollowing day, also at Wanganui, obtained from Joseph Henry Williams a gold wristwatch valued at £6 12/6 and £18 7/6 in money by falsely' representing that a cheque for £25 drawn on the Bank of New Zealand at Masterton was a good and valid order for that amount. The detectivo-sergeant stated that accused had told the accountant that ho had an account in the Bank of New Zealand at Masterton, and had run out of cheque forms. He bougkt three anrl used two of them in the manner doscribed.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 9, 4 October 1937, Page 5
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