GAOL ON FOUR CHARGES
SALESMAN WHO DEFRAUDED CLERGYMAN NOT LONG OUT OF PRISON Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. Discharged from prison on May 28. A. Gowers, alias Philip Augustus Kesler. aged 23, a salesman was today sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. He received cumulative sentences of three months on each of four charges of false pretences. He also received fourteen days’ gaol, the sentence to be concurrent, on a charge of theft. Apparently accused came to Wellington after his discharge from Waikuno and there stole a cheque-book from tl Rev. Feildcn Taylor and by meajis of valueless cheques obtained altogether £4 14 3d. He had a long list of previous convictions.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 11
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110GAOL ON FOUR CHARGES Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 11
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