NUMEROUS CRIMES ADMITTED
PLAUSIBLE NE’ER-DO-WELL (By Telegraph—Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Bth January. “He is very plausible. Since coming to New Zealand ho lias gone under three names, lie was horn in England, and received a good education. Apparently liis people are well-to-do, and he is a ne’er-do-well who had to leave the country.” Leslie Morgan Draper, aged 42, was described in these terms by Detective Meiklcjolin when he appeared before Mr R. W. Tate, S.M., to admit numerous crimes of false pretences and theft involving over £l5O. lie was summarily dealt with, and was given a sentence of two years’ reformative detention. Beginning with the theft of a cheque hook at New Plymouth on Ist November, Draper toured the North Island, and within six weeks had collected money on, twenty valueless cheques. Misrepresentation of another kind—that lie was expecting a remittance from Englands—was admitted by him as a ruse to collect £BO at Taumarumii a year ago.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 January 1931, Page 8
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157NUMEROUS CRIMES ADMITTED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 January 1931, Page 8
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