FALSE PRETENCES
THREE YEARS’ REFORMATIVE.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association ',
WELLINGTON, May 25. Three' years’ reformative wa-s imposed by Mr Page, S.M., on Sydney Gray Railton, alias Rogers, aged 44, a cook, wile- admitted flour charges of sending false telegrams, and a charge of attempting to obtain 14s 6d by false pretences. The police stated that while in prison, accused learnt the name of a man in Wanganui, who wa-s prepared to assist one Purdie, on Purdie’s discharge from prison, and accused sent a telegram to this man in Purdie’s name and obtained £2. Later he tried to get 14s Gd from a member of the Prisoners Aid Society saying he ivfts Purdie, and had a job to go to in Wan’gamii.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1932, Page 6
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