“TISSUE OF LIES”
DURHAM MINER CHARGED. [BY CABLE —PRKSO ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. February. ?7, 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, February 26. A man named Fishwick, aged 32 years, a miner was found on the roadside in Hurham, shot in the back. He alleged that a man.in a motor-car had attacked and robbed him. Fishwick’s life was despaired of at the hospital, but he recovered, and was immediately arrested and charged with being a public nuisance. The police stated that, Fighwick’s story was a tissue of lies, told apparently for the sake of notoriety. The police inquiries have cost several hundred pounds. . ... The defence pleaded that Fishwick was suffering from delusions. The Judge deferred sentence until the end of the Assizes.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1935, Page 7
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