IMPUDENT FRAUD
ELECTRICIAN FOUND GUILTY. (Per Press Association — Copyright.) WELLINGTON, August 4. The jury brought in a. verdict of guilty on all • counts against Isaiah Joseph Kills, electrician, aged 31, on three charges of obtaining by false pretences electric lamps from the British General Electric Coy. Ltd., and one charge' of obtaining from the same firm credit by fraud to the extent of £149. Tha charges were that Hills represented to the Chief Accountant of trie Electric Coy., that he had a contract with a big Oil Coy., for the maintenance of petrol pumps in a territory from north Upper Hutt to Paekakiriki, and that he, was expecting similar contracts from other oil companies; and that he owned a house in which he was living. , , . By this moans, it v’as alleged, .he obtained 844 'lamps, which he sold at less than the purchase price. • Sentence was deferred.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1932, Page 5
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