CALLOUS ROGUE
SENTENCED TO 6 MONTHS’ GAOL. POSED .AS O LD. MAN. Despicable frauds on women by a man described in court at a “callous rogue .and a plausible l»ar” were dealt with at the Croydon borough policecourt. Reginald Charles Gates, 29, a single man, w ! hos e address Vas given as Clifton (Road, South Norwood, was sentenced to six months’ hard labour when charged with obtaining by faljse pretences sums totalling over£s. He had pleaded guilty to 'four cases and asked that seven others should b 6 taken into consideration.
Detective Milling said that Gates, posing as .a C.I.D. officer, told a young woman he could get her a clerkship at iScotland Yard. She paid £1 11s 6d as alleged reg : stration fees, and after she had paid the last half-guinea, Gates told her he had had her application “pushed to the top.” Gates had also posed as an agent oi the Hospitals Savings Association, and took 12s 6d from a labourer’s invalid wife on a promise to get her a spinal .jacket.
On the pretext of going to u barrister over a claim for accident damages, Gates received 31* from a hou-'e decorator.
In the case of a plumber, Gates took two guineas on the strength of getting 'him a job as a police despatch rider Detective -Moiling said that ,in February at London Sessions Gates wee bound over for having obtained money by false pretences by saying that his mother and .sister were dead, anci money was needed for their funerals. Ho ros e . from signal lad to ticket collector on tlie Southern Railway, but hi-: honesty was questioned, and ho was allowed to resign. In June, 1926, he was appointed to be a c.’erk, drill instructor, and special inspector of the “A'* Division, Metropolitan Special Onstabluary at Scotland Yard. Hi*, pay wag .£7j 5s a week. H ; ia work, how ever, ..became unsatisfactory, and in February, 1931, he wae permitted to ve ‘ sign. The detective cn.id that, nothing whatever could be said in favour of Gates, who was a “callous rogue and a plausible liar,” His despicable, frauds
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1932, Page 2
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