A STRANGE CASE.
young man impersonates POLICE OFFICER. (Pfr Press Association*.} WELLINGTON, August 23. A strahge case was beard at the Police Court. A young man named Joseph Terence Maher was charged j with assuming the designation of a police officer and attempting to obtain CIO from a storekeeper. Evidence showed that accused represented himself as a police sergeant, visited the shop of an old man named John Parry, and demanded £lO, alleged to be obtained from a person some days previously, otherwise ho would arrest Parry. The request was refused. Maher denied knowledge of the transaction. He was fined £lO on the l! arge of representing himself as a police officer, and was committed for trial on the second charge. Bail was allowed m a sum of £ltn».
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16820, 24 August 1922, Page 4
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129A STRANGE CASE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16820, 24 August 1922, Page 4
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