"IMPUDENT CASE"
LABOURER GAOLED
(By Telegraph.—Presa Association.) . NAPIER, June 20.
In the Magistrate's Court Edwin Charles a labourer, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment on a charge of obtaining money by falsely representing that he was a detective. Ori the suggestion of the Magistrate a charge of assuming the designation of a police officer was withdrawn. The-police stated that the accused had been in a shop when cigarettes were purchased after hours, and had warned the shopkeeper about selling them, saying he was Detective Dunn and had been connected with a murder case. Between June 10 and 16 he Obtained various sums from the shopkeeper. . The defence was that he intended to pay the money back at the end of the month, when his insurance was due. The accused denied he had said he was a detective. He thought the storekeeper knew him and did not consider he would take him for a deThe Magistrate described the case as impudent.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 144, 21 June 1938, Page 15
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