FOUR MONTHS IN GAOL
ARMY OFFICER’S LAPSE. London, Jan. 0. Major Harold Cheesman, . formerly metropolitan secretary of the British Legion, has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment in the second division for misappropriating £4S6 belonging to the Legion. The magistrate said it was a sad case, but not one of sudden temptation. Cheesman, speaking with emotion, told the magistrate that tlie conviction would rob him of his Army rank and war decorations. He would be quite ruined. “1 will take my medicine,” he said, "but I hope the Legion will take care of my seven children.” Colonel Crosfield, chairman of the executive of the Legion, subsequently stated that it did not intend that Chessman's wife and children should want for anything. It would also try to secure him a fresh start.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 January 1930, Page 13
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