“PREYING ON THE PUBLIC”
MAN SENT TO GAOL FOR LONG TERM. SIXTEEN FALSE PRETENCES, CHARGES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. “You seem to have made up your mind to prey on the public, and there is only one thing for me to do to you,” said Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., in Court this morning, in sentencing Edward Joseph Foley, a labourer, aged 32, to six months’ imprisonment on each of three charges of obtaining goods by false pretences, the terms to be cumulative. In all there were 16 charges of false pretences against Foley of obtaining clothing, shoes, wrist watches and a clock from city firms, to the value of £9O Ils 3d. He pleaded guilty.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1939, Page 6
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118“PREYING ON THE PUBLIC” Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1939, Page 6
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