BORSTAL TERM FOLLOWS FRAUD
YOUTH’S ESCAPADE SOLD PIANO TWICE Athol Henry Deighton, aged 18, raised £.40 this month on the family piano. T-£E pleaded guilty at the Police Court to-day to charges of obtainibS £ls and £25 by false pretences. Chief-Detective Hammond said that accused had gone to two dealers and raised money from them by representing that the piano was his own property. The £ls, which was obtained on March 14, had been spent in the city, but after the second sum was obtained accused and a friend were about to set out for Wellington, but accused’s arrest prevented the trip. Deighton was also charged with breach of the terms of his probation. He was ordered to be detained in the Borstal Institute for a term not exceeding three years.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 315, 28 March 1928, Page 15
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