ROGUE SENT TO GAOL
Auckland, August 9. At the Supreme Court Leo W. Phillips, guilty of failing to account for £2OO received on behalf of another party, was sentenced to three years’ imrd labour. Accused received money from a woman to be lent to a taxi-driver, the woman to receive a biil-of-sale on a motor car. Accused maintained the money was lent to him. The jury returned a verdict of theft. Mr Justice Herdman said accused was a thorough-paced rogue, had defrauded a friend, and had even married under false pretences. He has a record of fraud extending over thirty years.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2465, 10 August 1922, Page 3
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101ROGUE SENT TO GAOL Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2465, 10 August 1922, Page 3
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