TALE OF A TITLE DOPES BUSINESS MEN OF SYDNEY
Robert Gunter Says He’s Really Sir Robert SIS MONTHS’ HARD IS SENTENCE [By Electric Cable-Copyright,] JAust. and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Tuesday, 8.5 . p.m.) SYDNEY, March- 6, .Robert Gunter has been sentenced to six months’ hard labour on a charge of falsely representing that ho was Sir Robert Gunter, thus obtaining the use of a motor car. The police gave evidence that accused had many previous convictions in London .and New Zealand for similar offences. He had victimised a number of leading Sydney business men. While en route to Australia on the Marama he had represented to passengers that he had received cablegrams apprising him that his uncle had died and the title was now his. On arrival at Sydney he engaged a suite at a leading hotel as Sir Robert Gunter.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6551, 7 March 1928, Page 7
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141TALE OF A TITLE DOPES BUSINESS MEN OF SYDNEY Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6551, 7 March 1928, Page 7
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