FREE BOARD
UNEMPLOYED MAN TELLS A TALE FINE OF £5 IMPOSED Telling a boarding-house proprietress that he was employed at the new railway station, Douglas James Sampson obtained free board from last Thursday until yesterday, when his landlady, suspecting a fraud, discovered his story to be untrue. At the Police Court this morning, Sampson was fined £5. Sampson, a labourer, aged 25, pleaded guilty to obtaining 15s credit by fraud Irom Mrs. E. McKennon on June 16. Sub-Inspector Shanahan said accused had gone to a boarding-house in Park Road, saying that he was in employment. The landlady had given him a room, but became suspicious and rang up the contractors for the new railway station where he said h* was employed. They knew nothing of him, so the landlady asked for a settlement. Sampson offered to pay bv cheque. “As a matter of fact, he is out of work and he has a list,” added the sub-inspector. “Sampson was to two Y ears ' imprisonment at Wellington for breaking, entering and theft and he has also been on probation for theft.”
‘Gaol won’t hurt him, then,” commented Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., fixing a default of seven days’ imprisonment on the £ d fine.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1000, 17 June 1930, Page 14
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202FREE BOARD Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1000, 17 June 1930, Page 14
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