FALSE TELEGRAM
INSTIGATOR FINED (P.A.) Auckland, Nov. 20. A young woman who was flown from Hobsonville to Hamilton and granted 13 days’ leave was yesterday fined £5 by Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., on a charge of inciting a woman friend at Cambridge to commit the offence of wilfully causing a false telegram to be sent. Accused, Ruth Violet Mclnness, did not appear, but counsel pleaded guilty on her behalf. Senior-Detective Walsh said that accused, aged 21, was a W.A.A.F. The telegram, sent from Cambridge, said: “Come immediately; Jessie dying, Waikato Hospital. Can you mind the children.—Frank.” The Air Force immediately arranged for W.A.A.F. Mclnness to be taken by plane to Hamilton on eight days’ leave. Later it was extended to 13 days. Subsequently the Air Force authorities discovered the telegram was false, and that none of the accused’s relatives were in the hospital.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 276, 22 November 1943, Page 3
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144FALSE TELEGRAM Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 276, 22 November 1943, Page 3
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