BUDDING SHERLOCK HOLMES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 161, 9 July 1926, Page 9

BUDDING SHERLOCK HOLMES.

IMPERSONATES DETECTIVE.

NO CRIMINAL INTENTION.

(By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, this day. "He does not appear to have gained anything by the scheme, and it is hard .to understand* why he did it," said Chief-Detective Ward, of a young man, Stanley Julian Wainwright, who appeared in Court charged with unlawfully impersonating a detective. "It appears that a man named Swift had a disagreement with a woman, and had received an anonymous letter relating to the affair," continued the Chief Detective. "Swift, thinking Wainwright was a Government official, confided in him, and he offered to investigate the occurrence. Accordingly, Wainwright went one night to the house where the woman lived, and represented he was a detective. When questioned as to his bona fides, he said his name was Wilson, but one of the occupants of the place went out and brought back a policeman, to whom Wainwright admitted he was not a detective. He had been of pevious good chaacter," concluded the Chief Detective. For the defence, Mr. P. J. O'Regan said Wainwright had nothing to gain by the impersonation, but had simply consented to investigate the source of the letter. He had no intention to commit an offence. Defendant was convicted and fined £1.