REMAND ON BAIL
.» CASE AGAINST YOUNG MAN A charge of obtaining £3 3s 6d com- , pensation from a snipping company °y falsely representing that he was i unfit for work as a result of an injury, was brought against Jack Pohl, car- : center, aged 22 years, before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court this morning. Detective-Sergeant L. Revell, who represented the police, asked for a re- '• mand until July 31. He stated that ' a number of other similar charges had to be investigated. Mr. R. Boys, who appeared for the accused, said that Pohl had a good answer to the charge brought, but it aid appear that there was somewhere a minor offence within the ramifica- ' i ons the Workers' Compensation •♦S Ts, e accus.e«l had been in hospital with a poisoned scalp and was only discharged yesterday in order that he could be looked after by relatives in Christchurch. His ferry ticket had been purchased, but-he had been arrested shortly after leaving the hospital yesterday afternoon. Bail was nxed at £25 a condition being that the accused be readmitted to Wellington Hospital and, remain there until the hearing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 21, 24 July 1936, Page 14
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192REMAND ON BAIL Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 21, 24 July 1936, Page 14
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