A BOGUS CLERIC.
CHANGE FROM CHEQUES. The story of how a clerk posed, as a newly-ordained priest and obtained | moncv "from city tailors, from whom he had ordered clerical garments, was . Inl.l at the City Court, Melbourne, : when Joseph Robert Egan (30) was , oommitcd fotr trial on four charges of ; false pretences. Egan told a salesman I at the Leviathan Stores, when order- i ing a 1-i-guinca suit, that he had com- j pletcd his priest's course at Manly, and would shortly be a missionary in . the Islands. For a £l2 cheque he was (.riven £7 change. At Buckley and Nunn's he was given £24 change on two cheques, and at Lincoln, Sherman's he was given £9 10s. To Henry ! Luck he gave a cheque for £ls 10s'for | £3 13s forth of goods, including a j priest's hat, and was told to call back for the change. When he returned he was arrested.
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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16512, 5 June 1925, Page 11
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153A BOGUS CLERIC. Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16512, 5 June 1925, Page 11
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