DRIVER SENT TO GAOL
“Particularly Mean Action” RELIEF WORKER’S DEATH “It is a particularly ’mean action,” said Mr. T. B. McNeil, S.J'., in the Police Court yesterday, when sentencing Norman ‘Eric Enos Hicks, horsedriver, aged 31, to six months’ imprisonment, on a . charge of imposing on private individuals and collecting £5 15/- by - false, pretences. Detective-Sergeant Revell said that accused was engaged on relief works, and on May 5 a friend of his, James Leckie, died on the job. Hicks then conthe idea of a collection for a .wreath. He followed this up by going to various people In the city, and collecting funds for Leckie’s wife and children. When seen by a detective he admitted collecting lit least £5/15/-, which, he said, he had spent on drink.
“This offence is a particularly mean OLie,” the detective-sergeant said. “At the present time the unemployed want all the support they can get, and when people find that they are being victimised they may hesitate about subscribing to these funds.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 230, 24 June 1932, Page 5
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168DRIVER SENT TO GAOL Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 230, 24 June 1932, Page 5
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