CLERK POSED AS SURGEON
NEW ZEALANDER CHARGED IN SYDNEY Posing as a discharged surgeon commander from the Royal Navy, Murray Beresford Roberts, aged 27, clerk, a New Zealander, got meals, aecommodation and social contacts,. it was stated at Central Court, Sydney,. reports the Sun. Roberts pleaded guilty to a charge of falsely pretending to Major Keith Regin--ald Jones, that he was a surgeoncommander, M.D.; F.R.C.S. and D.S.O., recently discharged from the Royal Navy in England, with a view to obtaining an advantage. He was bound over to be of good behaviour for two years. Constable Willoughby said that Roberts admitted that he had tried to make a big fellow of himself. Mr. J. A. Meagher, for Roberts, said that no one had suffered a penny- loss. His client had been discharged from the New Zealand Army medically unfit. "He is a man of educational attainments who went through the university to the last .year of a medical eourse," Mr. Meagher added.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 May 1946, Page 2
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