SENT TO NEW ZEALAND.
CANADIAN DRUG ADDICT. CONVICTED OF FRAUD. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Friday. Several charges of obtaining money by means of valueless cheques were preferred against Douglas Charles Hopewell, described as a Canadian, who appeared in the Police Court to-day. It was stated that accused had been an officer in the Canadian Flying Corps, having been shot down into the German lines. Since then he had been a drugaddict, and his parents—his father being a Judge of the Canadian Supreme Court —sent him to New Zealand. He had visited many towns in the Dominion, cashing valueless cheques. He was recently ordered to have reformative detention at Invercargill. The magistrate ordered that the accused be detained for two years, and suggested that the Prisons Board should have him returned to Canada.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1927, Page 15
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132SENT TO NEW ZEALAND. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1927, Page 15
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