BOGUS DETECTIVE
FINE OF £10 IMPOSED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. When released from prison recently, John Gibb Hastings, a young man with twenty convictions, followed. a strangor into a house in Vincent street and stated that he had a warrant, for his arrest for .defrauding another man for 255. The accused searched the room and then mentioned that the matter would be fixed up if he was given 255. The stranger doubted Hast ings Js claim to membership of the Police Force, and took steps which led to his arrest. This morning he was fined £10, in default one month's imprisonment, on a charge of assuming the designation of an act-ing-detective. ■
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Evening Post, Issue 144, 15 December 1926, Page 12
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113BOGUS DETECTIVE Evening Post, Issue 144, 15 December 1926, Page 12
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