VALUELESS CHEQUE.
MAN SENT TO GAOL. (Per Press Association.) WANGANUI, Dec. 6. Joseph Harvey Cornish was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at the court to-day for issuing a valueless cheque for £3. Detective Walsh said that accused’s record was not a good one. He first met him in Wellington when selling shares in a patent to harness the tides. In August, 1923, ho was sentenced at Palmerston North to 12 months’ on six charges of false pretences. Some months ago he started out from Gisborne and, though a married man with a family of six, he picked up a young woman and, taking her round the countvy, had been selling shares in a provisional patent for a level crossing signal at £5 for one twohundredth part of a share. He had collected £230 from various people by this means and, added the detective, it appears to be a poor look-out for the investors.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 8, 7 December 1926, Page 2
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153VALUELESS CHEQUE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 8, 7 December 1926, Page 2
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