BOGUS TELEGRAM
FINE IN OTAGO COURT WARNING TO OFFENDER (Tor Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Warning the defendant that he had made himself liable to imprisonment for 12 months. Mr. J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., to-day fined William George Deans £5 on a charge of sending a bogus telegram. The police said that Deans sent a telegram to a man in Timaru reading: “Come down at once, Dot,” Dot being the name of a young lady to whom the recipient was engaged. The man left at once by car and found on his arrival that the lady had no knowledge of the telegram. Deans had been pestering the young lady with his attentions and had evidently sent the telegram as a spiteful gesture. The offence was regarded as serious by the Post Office authorities.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19597, 31 March 1938, Page 9
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133BOGUS TELEGRAM Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19597, 31 March 1938, Page 9
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