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DRUG ADDICT. CHARGED ISSUED VALUELESS CHEQUES. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, June 11. Douglas Charles Hopewell, described as a Canadian, was charged at the Police Court on several charges of obtaining money by valueless cheques. It was stated that accused was an officer in the Canadian Flying Corps, having been shot down within the German lines. Since then he had been a drug addict, and his parents, his father being a Judge of the Supreme Court, had sent him to New Zealand. He had visited many towns in the Dominion, cashing valueless cheques. Recently he was ordered reformative detention at Invercargill. The Magistrate ordered that accused be detained for two years and Suggested that the Prisons Board should have him returned to Canada.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19865, 13 June 1927, Page 7
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