FALSE PRETENCES
PRIVATE INQUIRY AGENT SENTENCED. By Telegraph—Press Association Christchurch, Jan. 26. Tho whole thing was said to be a hoax, but really it was blackmail, said Chief Detective Carroll to-day when Joseph Hepburn, aged 46, a private inquiry agent, faced three charges of false pretences concerning sums of money received from Eva Nicholls. Hepburn pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one month’s hard labour. The police said that he pretended to draw up a bond covering an agreement with another party over a domestic matter, but he really did not do threepence worth of work on the case.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 36, 26 January 1932, Page 4
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