DIAMOND FRAUDS
WELLINGTON CASES PRISON FOR PERPETRATORS (By Telegraph.—Pres* Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday Commenting that the records of the prisoners showed that they were going from bad to worse and that precluded the granting of probation, Mr Justice Johnston, in the Supreme Court, sentenced each of the four men involved in the case in which zircons were passed off as diamonds, * to 12 months’ hard labour. They were Edward Hughes, aged 26, a salesman, William Birch, aged 26, a salesman and showman, Charles Lewis Peoples, aged 25, a clerk, and Cecil Gambell, aged 28, a butcher. j Hughes had pleaded guilty to .three charges of false pretences, Birch to two charges, Peoples to two charges of false pretences and one of theft, and Gambell to two charges of false pretences and one of theft. Peoples, Hughes and Gambell were * also associated in a charge of obtain-
ing £l5O by falsely representing that as a jockey, brother and owner, they were going to invest the money on a horse race.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21361, 4 March 1941, Page 6
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168DIAMOND FRAUDS Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21361, 4 March 1941, Page 6
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