IDLE MAN IN ARMY COAT
MIXED WITH TRAINEES IN CAMP. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Donald Dunbar Wares was arrested at th© military pageant on Saturday, wearing a military overcoat and puttees and carrying an old-fashioned heavy colt revolver. He was charged in the Magistrate’s Court to-day with being an idle and disorderly person and with being unlawfully in possession of a revolver and wearing a military overcoat, not being a member of the military forces, and with stealing a pair of puttees. Wares, it was stated, had got into camp with the trainees at Addington, though the authorities had expelled him some time before. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 April 1927, Page 7
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