POLICE RECORD AT FAULT
CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY A CHAIN OF COINCIDENCES (PA) AUCKLAND, Sept. 25. As'a sequel to a challenge made last week by a prisonei, Thomas Turner, aged 58, a cook, that the police record of his convictions was wrong, a report was made to Mr Justice Callan in the Supreme Court to-day, when Turner again came up for sentence, that an error had been made. “It appears, as was suspected last week, that another man named Turner was mixed up with this man,” said the judge. “ The police make very few mistakes, it must be admitted, but they did in this case. Both men were named Thomas Turner, both were seamen, and both had tattoo marks.” The judge said the prisoner had wisely challenged the police record, as the other, man’s record was worse than his own. On a charge of doing an indecent act in a public place the prisoner was ordered to be detained for reformative purposes for six months.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25958, 26 September 1945, Page 3
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