FALSE PRETENCES
OFFENDER SENT TO GAOL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. June 29. “Men who go round defrauding business people in this manner must be punished. There is too much going on by men who think themselves clever. That is contemptible,” said Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Magistrates' Court when sentencing Peter Bryce •Cunningham, aged 37, to one month’s imprisonment on each of two charges of false and one of attempted false preparation which he sold for poisonhad represented to a city firm that a preparation which he hold for poisoning rats contained poison, whereas the analysts stated that they found no trace of poison. Replying to the police prosecutor. Cunningham admitted that he was convicted in Christchurch four years ago for false pretences by representing to a woman that he was poisoning rats. He admitted that he had been before the court on numerous occasions.
The magistrate said he was satisfied from the evidence that the meat which Cunningham spread for rats in a city store did not contain poison.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1938, Page 7
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173FALSE PRETENCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1938, Page 7
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