TO GAOL BY FRAUD. BERLIN, November 17. A young man named \\ eiss mas brought before the court at Strehlen, in Silesia, yesterday on an uncommon charge of fraud. A\ eiss is the black sheep of a respectable Breslau family and has been in prison several times, but for some time has been leading a straight life. Those mho thought he mas a reformed character mere shocked to hear ho had fallen again, and had. indeed, in an apparent lit of convulsion, gone to the police, and confessed that he had defrauded a Breslau firm. He mas kept in prison pending inquiries, the result of which mas that his confession mas found to be entirely false. He then admitted that he had pined for prison and had invented the crime to get back to the old life of regular hours and regular food. -Merciful justice found a may for him. He mas accused of defrauding the State by obtaining free board and lodging in prison, and the court found him guilty. He mas committed to eighteen months I of the ideal life in prison for which lie pined.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1925, Page 4
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