A SWINDLER
WITH A PLAUSIBLE TONGUE, (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 2. “This »man is a swindler with a plausible tongjue. He just goes about the country and takes what ne wants,” said Senior-S'ergearfF MicCrorie, before David Morris Morgan, a young man, was sentenced to tycree years’ reformative treatment on charges of false pretences. The charges were those of converting a car at Christchurch; obtaining £6 6s from a man at Rolleston by a valueless cheque ; obtaining, £6 los from a Temuka man by the same means and at Auckland, obtaining from a widow, Maud Maria Lindsay, £4, a sewing machine,
and suitcase and other goods valued at £37 5s by representing that he intended to marry her and that lie had a farm at Opotiki. A further charge was that of converting a car at Ngaio.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1931, Page 5
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139A SWINDLER Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1931, Page 5
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