SENT BOGUS TELEGRAM
MAN'S OFFENCE REGARDED AS SERIOUS IBy Telegraph-Press Association! DUNEDIN. This Day. Warning defendant that he had made himself liable to imprisonment for 12 months, the Magistrate. Mr Bartholomew fined William George Deans £5 on a charge of sending a bogus telegram. The police said that Deans sent a telegram to a man in Timaru. reading: "Come down at once. Dot.” Dot being the name of a young lady to whom the recipient’ was The man left at once by car and found on arrival that the young lady had no knowledge of the telegram. Deans had been pestering the young lady with his attentions, and had evidently sent the telegram as a spiteful gesture. The offence was regarded as serious by the Post Office authorities.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 8
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128SENT BOGUS TELEGRAM Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 30 March 1938, Page 8
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