FAKE DISTRESS TELEGRAM
Walter Jackson, aged fifty-five, of Scarborough, Yorkshire, employed in a factory at Cowes, Isle of Wight, showed fellow-workmen a fake telegram telling that his homo was in ruins. They collected £'.'s Us Gd for him. Later, in Court, lie was fined £5 and told that but for the state of his health he would have been sent to gaol.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23827, 30 November 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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62FAKE DISTRESS TELEGRAM New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23827, 30 November 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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