BOGUS POLICE OFFICER
MESSAGE TO HOSPITAL
FINE OF £5 IMPOSED
(Pur Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. For ringing up the Christchurch Hospital and telling a girl telephone attendant that he was the superintendent of police, Cecil Mark Brown, described as a civil engineer', was lined £5, in default one mouth's gaol, by the magistrate, Mr. E. I). Mosley.
Brown stated on the telephone that a certain woman patient was to have special attention, and for that purpose was to stay longer in hospital, lie said lie was a. police superintendent. He was speaking from a boarding-house in Manchester street.
The magistrate said it was a serious offence, but lie would not sentence him to gaol Ibis time.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18585, 20 December 1934, Page 14
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117BOGUS POLICE OFFICER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18585, 20 December 1934, Page 14
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