PROBATION REFUSED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 38, 15 February 1939, Page 5

PROBATION REFUSED

YOUNG MAN’S CAREER CASE AT AUCKLAND

[ Per Tresa Association. 1 AUCKLAND, Feb. 13. A young Englishman, Alexander Neville Rawson, v. hose financial affairs were left in the hands of the official receiver at Manchester at the end of last year, and who arrived here on Boxing Day, was to-day sentenced by the magistrate (Mr. C. R. Orr-Walker; on one of ten charges of obtaining money by issuing valueless cheques and credit byfraud. He pleaded guilty. The police described Rawson as “an-out-and-out fraud.” They stated that his father was a wealthy manufacturer in England who hau refused to have anything more to do with him. It was said that Rawson had gone through 18000 in the last year or two. Counsel, in appealing for leniency, said accused had had the mis-j fortune to be born with a silver spoon in his mouth. I In refusing probation, the magis-

trate said tne offences were deliberate, serious and persistent. On the first charge accused was ordered to be detained for reformative purposes for 12 months, and on i the other charges he was ordered, to come up for sentence within two years if called upon.