BOGUS SOLDIERS.
DUNEDIN, June 10
At the Police Court to-day a young man named Albert Williams was charged with being a rogue and vagabond who imposed on a charitable institution. Accused pleaded guilty. The evidence for the police showed that accused obtained £17 in money,. clothing, board, etc.,'from the Soldiers' and Dopendents' Welfare Committee as a result of a statement that he had been wounded in the knee and cheek in the Somme battle. He received massage treatment at the hospital and went round town on erutchos. The police discovered that the man had been in camp, under the name of Dent, from January till April of 1916,- but tiiere was no record of his having left the Dominion. Mr Gumming, probation officer, said that a few men were making a business of falsely representing themselves as returned soldiers and asked that an example should bo made of accused. Accused was remanded for a week, ponding further inquiry and the probation officer's report.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9631, 11 June 1919, Page 7
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