EIGHTY-SIX CHARGES
OF FALSE PRETENCES & THEFT ADMITTED IN SUPREME COURT. MAN DECLARED HABITUAL ■ CRIMINAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. . A trail of valueless cheques _ that embraced most places of any size in both islands kept William George Thomas, a 45-year-old printer and labourer, on the move for more than three years, but the police caught up with him, and in the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth on September 4, he pleaded guilty to 82 charges of false pretences and four of theft. In the Supreme Court at Wellington today, he was sentenced by Mr Justice Smith to four years’ imprisonment with hard labour and declared an habitual criminal. Mr Justice Smith said that as far as he knew, the number of charges to come before the Court on any one occasion miust be a record. He found it difficult to see how the prisoner was allowed to proceed around the country for three years issuing the cheques. It was a sad reflection to think it had been possible to carry out that sort of crime over such a period, although he presumed it had been difficult for the police to track the prisoner.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1942, Page 4
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194EIGHTY-SIX CHARGES Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1942, Page 4
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