POSED AS DETECTIVE?
FARM LABOURER CHARGED. (l»y Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ■';'.;; DARGAVIIXE,-this day.' ' Representing-to a number of people in liuawni that he was a detective resulted, in Albert William Knowles, a farm labourer/.(SO), appearing in the Magistrate's Court on a charge of unlawfully assuming' tin, designation .of a member of "the New Zealand police force.
Sergeant Cullotty said accused had written letters to several people . in Kuawai, and had signed his name as a "detective.? He had also been caught by "a Hargavillcj night watehman'ctrying -the doors of shops. When questioned he said that he wns,a detective. Accused did not appear tor be quite' normal, added the sergeant. . .■•
■Messrs. A. C. Paul and H. H. Tonkin, •J.P.'s, granted a remand so that accused might be placed imder observation at the Auckland gaol.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 5, 7 January 1937, Page 8
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