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MONEY OBTAINED FROM STOREKEEPER REPRESENTED HE WAS DETECTIVE [Per United Press Association.] NAPIER, June 20. Commenting that although he committed blackmail he was not indicted for that offence, the Magistrate sentenced Edwin Charles Batt, labourer, to two months for obtaining money by falsely representing that he was a detective. ... On the suggestion of the magistrate the charge of assuming the designation of a police officer was withdrawn. The police stated that 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 the Joan Rattray murder case. Between June 10 and 16 he obtained various sums from the shopkeeper. , , , . . , , The defence was that he intended payino, the money back at the end of the month, when his' insurance was due. He denied that he had said he was a detective. He thought the storekeeper knew him, and did not consider he would take him for a detective. The magistrate described the case as impudent.
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Evening Star, Issue 22988, 20 June 1938, Page 8
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