POLICE COURT CASES.
WANGANUI, July 18. Ernest Albert Turner pleaded <milty today to three charges of sending bogus telegrams, at Christchurch last November, in the name of James Siddels, to three Wanganui residents, requesting them to wire various sums of money. All three responded, and the aggregate amount Turner received was £35. He also pleaded guilty to a charge of forging a receipt for a money order telegram from Blenheim. He was committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. WELLINGTON, July 18. Another repatriation officer, Harry Patrick Hodgins, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court on charges of theft and forgery. The theft charges relate to amounts of £7O and £26. Complaints are rife of thefts from football grounds One player recently had a new suit stolen. 011 four successive Saturdays articles have been taken from the Scots College ground, and similar thefts have been reported from other playing areas. INVERCARGILL, July 20. Wilson Hodges, agent for the Provident Assurance Company, was committed for trial for alleged misappropriation. The amount involved is £96.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3619, 24 July 1923, Page 49
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