Hard Labour For Falsely Wearing Kilt
(P.A.) AUCKLAND. This Day. Two years’ hard labour was the sentence imposed on George William Charles Hancock by Mi'. Justice Fair in the Supreme Court today on charges of false pretences and theft of which he had been found guilty. Prisoner had worn a kilt and had posed as being a member of a famous Scottish Regiment. He obtained £240 from a young woman but the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. V. R. Meredith) said that fortunately part of his representations was not untrue. Only a few months ago did he learn who his real father was and also of his death. He had documents to show that money was coming to him. (Prisoner had an interest in an estate).
The judge, in sentencing Hancock, said he had committed a mean type of crime. The series of offences, on which the basis of the latest charges were committed, were of an impudent nature indicating irresponsibility that required the disciplinary check of imprisonment.
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Northern Advocate, 23 August 1943, Page 4
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