FALSE PRETENCES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1933, Page 3

FALSE PRETENCES

WOMAN DEFRAUDED OF £l3O. (Per! Press Association— Copyright.) CHRISTCHURCH-, August 24. ; -■ ‘'Deliberate frauds of tjiis nature must be; prevented if possible,” said Mrr'E. Rv Mosley' ,S-M. in the Police Court to-day when sentencing James M’Millien M’Andrew, aged 51, desefibi ed as a. sharebroker, of Point Chevalier; to 12 months’ imprisonment with hard---labour, ■. Accused• pleaded., 'guilty to. five" charges of obtaining a total of £l3O 10s from. Frances Elizabeth Haste by falsely- representating that he was. the-owner of a'farm at Chertsey. Accused also admitted a charge of stealing £2O- from Charles Alexander M’Kay, by failing to.-account for the' money to the Bell Hill Gold 1 Sluicing Co. Ltd: ■ ' ■ ' Ch.ief-Detecitive:- Catroll vsaid, that Miss Haste was a single woman, whom accuSed met'some time ago. They became engaged and accused obtained the money by representing that he'wa s interested in a farm at Chertsey and needed money for it.' He Was located at Auckland and was charged at Wellington with obtaining £2O in a similar way. He was now serving a term of'three month s’ imprisonment fOV the crime. The money stolen from Miss Haste represented practically her life savings. '■