BOGUS DETECTIVE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 254, 10 July 1926, Page 8

BOGUS DETECTIVE

MEETS A REAL ONE The doings of a bogus detective were detailed to Mr. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when Stanley Julian Wainwright appeared on the charge of unlawfully impersonating a detective. Evidence went to show that the accused called one night at a house to investigate on his own behalf who was writing certain anonymous letters. While Wainwright was asking questions a girl in the house who overheard the conversation, had her suspicions aroused. “I don’t think this man is a detective at all,” she said, “and I’m going for a policeman.” She went, and a few moments later returned with a plain clothes constable. "Who are you?” asked the latter. "Oh, I’m a detective,” replied Wainwright. “Well, that’s extraordinary; so am I,” said the constable, “and I’m taking you into custody.” The chief detective added that a man named Swift, to whom anonymous letters had been addressed, thinking that Wainwright was a Government official, placed the matter in his hands and told him he had been receiving the letters from a certain quarter. For the defence Mr. P. J. O’Regan Stated that his client had no intention to commit an offence. "I do not think it is a very serious matter,” he went on "as. accused had nothing at ci to’gain bv it, Your Worship.” Accused was convicted and fined £l.