FALSE PRETENCES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 924, 18 March 1930, Page 11

FALSE PRETENCES

ELDERLY MAN FACES SERIES OF CHARGES £233 INVOLVED From Our Own Correspondent HAMILTON. Today. A series of charges of false prelences, involving a sum of £233, is pending against an elderly man, John Ryan, aged 60. Ryan today pleaded guilty to three of the charges, representing £45. The magistrate, Mr. J. C. L. Hewitt, S.M., ordered him to tome up for sentence when called upon, leaving it to the magistrate at Auckland, when additional charges were heard, to impose the sentence. Detective-Sergeant Thompson said that accused called at the Rank of "N« w Zealand in Auckland in February «md falsely represented his name to he James Hamilton, and that he had tt. bank account at Paeroa. He received six cheque forms in consequence. Later he called at the Farmers’ Trading Company and made similar representations and asked permission to open a trading account. His s:orv was believed and he was allowjed to operate on the account immediately. {Getting goods to the value of £SO. he presented n counter cheque for £IOO, and the following day he presented, a further cheque for a similar amount and was given a credit note for £2OO. He then got possession of the Farmers Trading cheque book and came to Hamilton and presented a cheque from it for £2O to the manager of the company’s Hamilton branch. He next went to Tauranga and 3ila.tama.ta, where he cashed further cheques. Returning to Hamilton, he opened an account at a local bank by depositing £ls. Receiving a cheque book he returned to Auckland and cashed several valueless cheques there.