TOO MUCH BRANDY
BUTCHER’S LAPSES TWO YEARS FOR FRAUD (Special to TilE SUN.) WELLINGTON, To-day. It was a mixture of brandy, post-war trouble, and domestic inharmny that was stated to be the cause of the lapse of William Roberts, alias Robertson, aged 47, a butcher, who appeared in the Police Curt to-day to answer five charges of issuing valueless cheques. “In fact,” said Mr. Mazenbarg, “he sometimes takes so much brandy that he goes clean off.” Roberts came to Wellington with a big sum of money during race week, and after getting rid of this in a remarkably short time, he went through Manawatu, Hawke’s Bay and Hunterville issuing valueless cheques and securing goods by fraud. Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., said that the only thing to protect the business community was to put him away, and sentenced him to a period of reformative detention not exceeding two years. Detective Holmes said that as soon as Rberts came out of gaol he entered another period of fraud.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 135, 29 August 1927, Page 13
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