THEFT & FRAUD
LAND AGENT SENTENCED IN CHRISTCHURCH PERIOD OF REFORMATIVE DETENTION. SUM OF NEARLY £3OOO INVOLVED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. On eight charges of theft and four of false pretences, William John Spratt, a land agent, aged fifty-three, was sentenced to eighteen months’ reformative detention by Mr Justice Northcroft, in the Supreme Court. A full list of the offences to which Spratt pleaded guilty comprised one charge of common theft of £34 19s, eighteen charges of theft, by failing to account for sums under £5O, totalling £348 15s 3d, eight charges of theft, by failing to account for. sums over £5O, totalling £1553 Ils 3d, and eleven charges of false pretenes, by borrowing on securities already mortgaged, sums totalling £lOOO. The entire sum involved was £2937.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1941, Page 6
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128THEFT & FRAUD Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1941, Page 6
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