MISREPRESENTATION
PATRIOTIC FUND IMPOSED UPON
ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, June 10. In the Magistrate's Court to-day, a 5-oung man named Albert Williams was charged with being a rogue and vagabond who imposed on a charitable institution. Accused pleaded "guilty. The evidence for tho puiu.e showed n,«+ n reused obtained £17 m moiioy, clothing board, etc., froni the Soldiers' Defendants' Welfare Committee, a< result of a statement that he had been wounded in the knee and cheek in the Sommo battle. He received massag treatment at the hospital, and wenl round the town on crutches The police discovered that accused had been u under the name of I>ent fron Tnmmrv till April, 1916, but there waJ £ jSSri ol L Vving l.ft the Do m Mp Camming, probation officer, saic ft few men were making a business o falsely representing themselves as re turned soldiers, and an example shoulc be made of the accused. Accused was remanded for a weeJ oendine further enquiry and tho pro Eon officer's report.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16546, 11 June 1919, Page 7
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