FOUND OUT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19828, 30 April 1927, Page 7

FOUND OUT

GUNTE.TS RISE AND FALL DISHWASHER—‘ ‘DOCTOR”— GAOLBIRD. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND. April 29. Robert William Gunter, aged 35, admitted the theft of £1 from two women and a stethoscope valued at ss, and also pleaded guilty to being idle and disorderly. Chief Detective Cummins saw accused when he arrived by the liner lonic on February 8. He had been staying at the best hotels in Auckland and having a good time and neglecting to pay his board. J stayed at hotels at Rotorua and and left without paying. He later lived in Grafton Road under the name of Dr. Gunter, of H.M.S. Philomel. Ho removed to a Symonds Street boardinghouse, where ho engaged a double room with two single beds saying that the extra bed was for another doctor who was going to stay with him. He prescribed for a boarder who was ill. He borrowed money from a genuine medical man. and visited Dr. l airburn, of the s.s. Ulimaroa, on tho ship, where he stole a stethoscope. Gunter mixed with the best people in Auckland. He was, said Detective Cummings, the greatest parasite New Zealand had ever known. He was washing dishes in the galley of the lonic coming out, and that was his status. Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., sentenced accused to three months in goal on each of three charges, the sentences to be cumulative.