CLAIMED TO BE POLICE CHIEF
AN UNUSUAL PROSECUTION fPER United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 20. For ringing up Christchurch Hospital and telling the girl telephone attendant that he was the Superintendent of Police Cecil Mark Brown, described as a civil engineer, was fined £5, in default a month’s gaol, by the magistrate, Mr Mosley. Brown stated on the telephone that a certain woman patient was to have special attention, and for that purpose was to stay longer in the hospital. He said he was the police superintendent.- He _ was speaking from a boarding house in Manchester street. The Magistrate said it was a serious offence, hut he would not sentence defendant to gaol this time.
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Evening Star, Issue 21908, 20 December 1934, Page 12
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115CLAIMED TO BE POLICE CHIEF Evening Star, Issue 21908, 20 December 1934, Page 12
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