CONSTABLE DECEIVED
"I suppose you read the papers and see that this sort of thing is looked upon as serious," said Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when imposing a sentence of 7 days' imprisonment upon Gordon Henry Thornton, a motor-driver, aged 22, who pleaded guilty to deceiving a constable by representing himself as a member of the crew of an overseas vessel. Sub-Inspector L. R. Capp described how the accused had, in company with another man, got on to the dock by claiming that he was a member of the crew of a ship, and that he had left his pass on board. A constable accompanied them, and the other man was proved to be a member of the crew. When the constable was told by an officer that the accused was not a member of the crew, Thornton ran away, but was caught. He admitted afterwards that he had deceived the constable, but he wanted to get on the ship with his mate.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1941, Page 13
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