POSED AS POLICE OFFICER
YOUNG AUCKLAND MAN FINED £io. INTERVIEW WITH BUSINESS MAN. By Telegraph,—Press Association. Auckland, Oct. 1. A young man was before the Police Court to-day on a charge which the magistrate described as “most serious.” Eric Guy Whitson, aged 20, was charged with unlawfully assuming the designation of a member of the New Zealand Police Force —a detective —on September 13. Whitson pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said Whitson on September 13 went to see a business man to discuss another business man. He said this man was a crook and that there were defalcations in his books.
“Whitson told the business man that he worked in the detective office on probation and he also told some girls that he was a detective,” said Detective Kelly. “He produced a pair of handcuffs. Apparently. Whitson wants to be on probation as given by this Court, which would be nothing new to him as he has three previous convictions.” Whitson was fined £lO, the penalty for default to be imprisonment for a month.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1932, Page 9
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