FALSE STATEMENT TO POLICE
YOUNG MARRIED MAN FINED (United Press Association! * WELLINGTON, This Day. An unusual story was disclosed in Court 10-day when Cecil Wilfred Norris pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the police. It was stated that he called at the Taranaki Street Police Station and made a complaint regarding the loss of £7O in a roll of £5 notes in Woolworths, Cuba street. Later he admitted that it was bogus. Defendant said that he was recently I married and his wife’s people were un- i der the impression that he had saved j approximately £IOO. He gave them' this impression and on Friday was supposed to draw this money out of the Post Office Savings Bank. Actually his amount in the bank was very meagre. The police said th t false complaints were serious, for in addition to causing unnecessary work they east suspicion on perhaps innocent persons. Defendant said that he had lost his head and did not know what he was doing. Mr Stout. S.Mi, convicted him and imposed a fine of £2 and costs.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 9 December 1938, Page 6
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