CASE ADJOURNED.
CHARGES AGAINST SOLDIER
POSSIBLE IMPERSONATION. (Prom Our Correepo&Oent.) HAMILTON, Wednesday. When two traffic charges were preferred against Patrick Fox, a gunner in the Royal New Zealand Artillery at Trcnthain in the Magistrate's Court today, Mr. S. L. Peterson, S.M., said that the case had possibly been one of impersonation. The offences were stated to have been committed at Te Rapa on April 28, but defendant, in a letter to the Court, declared that he was in Trentham on that date. Inspector A. E. Hodgson, of the Transport Department, eaid that the man concerned had told him that his name was Patrick Fox and that he wes in the district school at Narrow Neck. He might have since moved *to Trentham.
The magistrate said he had received a letter from the adjutant at Trentham stating that defendant was in camp on that day. He would adjourn the case for a fortnight to allow further inquiries to 'be made.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 21
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159CASE ADJOURNED. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 21
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