POSED AS POLICEMAN
Free Ride in Postal Van By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, September 16. The story of how two men secured a free ride from the suburbs into the city in a postal van as the result of one telling the driver he was a policeman escorting a prisoner to the police station was revealed in court this morning, when Raymond Bramwell Roberts (27) admitted assuming the designation of a constable; The police stated that accused and his companion, who was a naval officer, had been drinking and directed the van driver to take them to the police station. When they arrived accused ran away, but was caught. Counsel said that Roberts was trying to ape a man of means with the naval officer. Roberts was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months,. conditional upon taking out a prohibition order.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 302, 17 September 1936, Page 4
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147POSED AS POLICEMAN Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 302, 17 September 1936, Page 4
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