A DESPICABLE ACT.
By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, February 21. John William Campbell was convicted at the Magistrate's Court today of a despicably mean offence. He was charged with procuring Penguin matinee tickets of J. C. Williamson's Company on false pretences, the value being £2 2s. Ac cuaed communicated with one of Mr Williamson's clerks, in the name of Mr Smith, Taranak'", and asked that he might get tickets to sell for the relief of the sufferers by the wreck. In the evening he was found in a drunken state. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and on a second charge of procuring 19s 6d worth of cakes by means of false pretences, was sentenced to two montns' imprisonment, the sentences to be cumulative.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3120, 22 February 1909, Page 5
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124A DESPICABLE ACT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3120, 22 February 1909, Page 5
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