A GAY LIFE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1932, Page 6

A GAY LIFE

TALE! OF MAN’S DOWNFALL. VALUELESS CHEQUE ISSUED AUCKLAND, June 11. This young man is given to a- gay life —women and wine; that’s the cause of his trouble”, said Detective-Ser-geant Kelly about Walter Phillip Hailes, aged 30, a farmer who appeared on a series of charges ot obtaining goods and money by valueless cheques. Hailes (who cornea from a respectable family ’at Gore), in a long statement ! from the dock said that after undergoing nineteen operations in the south he came to Auckland to stay with friends, but got into trouble. He made restitution. He started on relief works, but had to give up hard work owing to abdominal operations. ‘T then went down to Christchurch to stay with a relative, but when f got there T found he had gone down south,” said Hailes. “I was worried about paying my board and was invited to fill in a blank cheque. This I did. I then went to the races to try to get hack enough to square it up, hut I missed.” The Magistrate: And you went on doing that in different towns?—Yes, 1 had hoped to make it all up at the races, but failed. “He's got about £7O by means or these valueless cheques issued during April and Afay,” said the detective. Accused was remanded for sentence pending a report from the probation officer.