A “DYING” MOTHER.
CHARITABLE PEOPLE DUPED. MAGISTRATE’S FIRM TREATMENT. (Special to Uailx Times.) AUCKLAND, April 30. Robert Wotherspoon, aged 3U, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to five charges of having obtained a total sum of £5 6s from various persons by false representing that he required money to go to Cambridge to see his “who was dying.” In one case he said his mother was’ dead. ‘‘This man is a professional imposter,” said Chief Detective Cummings. ‘‘The persons he approached were all charitably disposed people, and he was given the money. His mother is not in Cambridge. The only relatives he has in New Zealand are his wife and five children. Four of his children are in a State institution, and he has not paid for their keep.” Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M.: Oh, dear; a wife and five children!
Mr Cummings: I think his wife would be bettor off without him. He has not done any iwork for six weeks. He is an assisted immigrant, and has been in New Zealand for four years. “There is only on? thing for a man like Wotherspoon, ’’ sa/d the Magistrate—“six months’ imprisonment, three months on one charge and three on another, the terms to be cumulative.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20087, 2 May 1927, Page 8
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205A “DYING” MOTHER. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20087, 2 May 1927, Page 8
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