ENGLISHMAN’S FRAUDS
TERM OF DETENTION “BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON” (By Telegraph —Press Association) AUCKLAND Monday A young Englishman, * Alexander Neville Rawson, whose 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 to 12 months’ reformative detention by Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., on one of ten chrages of obtaining money bv valueles cheques and credit by fraud. He pleaded guilty. The police described Rawson as “an out-and-out fraud.” They stated his father was a wealthy manufacturer in England who refused to have anything more to do with him. Counsel, in appealing for leniency, said accused had the misfortune to be born with a silver spoon in his mouth. In refusing probation, • the magistrate said the offences were deliberate, serious and persistent.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20729, 13 February 1939, Page 8
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143ENGLISHMAN’S FRAUDS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20729, 13 February 1939, Page 8
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