POSED AS DETECTIVE.
MAN FINED £lO. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Tuesday. Alexander Mulholland pleaded not guilty in the Police Court to a charge of assuming the designation of detective. lie approached two men in a hotel and asked for their names and addresses, saying that he was a detective. A constable was called and arrested Mulholland. One of the men admitted that he regarded the Incident as a joke at the time, and this was the case for the defence, it being stated that accused was a steady, reliable man. Mr McKean, S.M., said the Act did not provide for jokes of this kind. Accused was fined £lO and costs.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17133, 21 June 1927, Page 7
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