DEVOID OF CONSCIENCE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 322, 5 April 1928, Page 9

DEVOID OF CONSCIENCE”

IMPOSTOR SENTENCED BOARD OBTAINED BY FRAUD iSpecial to THE SUN) DUNEDIX, Wednesday. “He is one of the greatest impostors I have ever come across, and one devoid of any conscience at all/* was how Chief-Detective Cameron described Reginald Molyneux, ; alias Allen, who was charged m the Magistrate’s Court to-day, with obtaining board and money totalling £24 by false representations, and also with failure to account for £ll 15s 3d. , Counsel for the defence said that Molyneux had had four and a-half years’ war service in France, and had been severely wounded, suffering as a . result from a depressed fracture of ] the skull, for which he had been in- - receiving treatment over a considerable period. Later he had in- : dulged in drinking bouts, which ap- ' peared to be the main cause of the \ trouble. Mr. J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., sentenced Molyneux to reformative deten- 1 lion for 12 months on the first charge, ■ and on the second convicted him and ordered him to come up for sentence ! when called upon. }