DOCTOR IMPERSONATED
MECHANIC ON TELEPHONE. GOODS OBTAINED. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, January 23. Representing himself by telephone to be a well-known local doctor, Harold George William Stevenson, aged 44, a mechanic, arranged for clothing and footwear to be sent to the doctor’s premises for the use of patients. Meeting the messengers outside he took possession of the articles. The first attempt succeeded, but the second failed and as a result Stevenson appeared in the Police Court to-day and pleaded guilty to charges of stealing four suits and other garments to a value of £3O from Vance Vivian, Ltd., and of attempting to steal six pairs of shoes valued at £lO 10/- from Lindsay’s, Ltd. On the former charge he was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention and on the latter he was ordered to come up for sentence if called on within two years.
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Southland Times, Issue 22488, 24 January 1935, Page 7
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