FALSE PRETENCES
WOMAN GETS SIX MONTHS’
(British Official Wireless.)
WELLINGTON, December 21
Charged with false .pretences, Olivo Forbes Goodwin, was to-day sentenced by Air Page, S.M., to Six months’ imprisonment on each of two charges, concurrent. William Edwin Goodwin, her husband, was jointly charged, but the Magistrate said there was n 0 satisfactory evidence in which lie could convict the mule accused., The cases arose out of valueless cheques for £ll 11s, and £2 15. The female accused has a long list of offences of obtaining credit by fraud and of vagrancy. Myrtle- Jones, 27, convicted last year, and ordered to come up for sentence’ within three years if called, appeared at! the' Gourt to-day on charges of' shoplifting, and was sent to gaol for a month
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1932, Page 6
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127FALSE PRETENCES Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1932, Page 6
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