FALSE PRETENCES
CROOK’S ORIGINAL METHODS
EIGHTEEN MONTHS IMPRISONMENT.
George Anderson, alias William Robert Ashley, alias Roland Anderson, alias Angsley, a labourer, 47 years of age, appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., at the Palmerston Magistrate’s Court yesterday on six charges of false pretences, the offences allegedly having been committed at Palmerston North and Foxton between March 10 and 1(3, and the total sum involved being £3 18s Gd,
Senior Sergeant O’Grady stated that accused had visited various business people and had ordered goods, after which lie had obtained
loans on the representation that he was the manager of a district dairy factory. In Palmerston North he had visited a local undertaker’s establishment and had ordered three wreaths to be sent to Rongotea, saying that his mother had died at Auckland and was to be brought down to this district for burial. He had mentioned that he was short of money and had asked for the loan for an hour or two of £l, which had been given, lie was found a little later in an hotel. From another shopkeeper he had ordered 101 b of sweets, saying that these were for a school picnic at Rongotea. A loan had followed on his request. At a fruit shop he had procured a bottle of sweets, saying that his wife was outside and would come in and pay for them. In Foxton he had ordered a gramophone, stating that his sister was being married and that he intended to make her a present of it. A request for a loan had been successful. With another Foxton shopkeeper lie had placed a large order for bacon and had then obtained a loan.
Accused, continued the SeniorSergean, was well known to the police, and, on seven charges of a similar nature at Gisborne, he had been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on each.
The magistrate- imposed sentence id three months’ imprisonment with liard labour on each charge, the terms to be cumulative.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3014, 23 March 1926, Page 2
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329FALSE PRETENCES Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3014, 23 March 1926, Page 2
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