THE BOGUS DR. CLARK.
YOUTH FINED FOR FALSE PRETENCES. / Auckland, March 11. William Frederick Clark, charged with wilfully and falsely pretending to be a practitioner in medicine, appeared before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M, this morning and pleaded guilty. Chief-detective McMahon mentioned that Clark, who is a spectacled youth of 22 years',was in July last put on probation after being convicted of vagrancy consequent on his living on boardinghouse keepers by patronising a number of them and always moving on without squaring up. Clark stated that he ; did not think he was doing any harm to anj’body. He was very nearly blind, he said, and he had hit upon this way of getting the necessary cash to enable him to have his eyes properly attended to. Since the police had seen him he had obtained legitimate employment at 25/- a yveek. The bogus doctor was fined £5 and ordered to pay it at the rate of 5,- a week, in default a month’s hard 1 labour.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 75, 12 March 1913, Page 3
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