FALSE PRETENCES.
Wellington, Last Night. Douglas Arthur Fletcher BreAver, aged 32, Avas to-day sentenced to 12 months’ reformative detention on a charge of obtaining petrol by false pretences and convicted and was discharged on another charge. It .Avas stated that he had been employed at a sendee station, had opened accounts at five different banks and deposited small amounts and had been issuing valueless cheques. The magistrate said that the offences shoAved that prisoner Avas folloAving a system and he had indulged in the thing on several previous occasions;.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3885, 18 December 1928, Page 2
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89FALSE PRETENCES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3885, 18 December 1928, Page 2
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