BOGUS DETECTIVES
TWO MEN BEFORE COURT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, February 21. “Bring your husband; we are Detectives Hunt and Walsh wanting to search your house,” demanded two tall men, who stood on the doorstep of Harry Smith’s home in Stratford Street at 1 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Smith called her husband, who quickly made up his mind that they were not detectives at all. and had them arrested. Harry White, aged 25. was fined £lO, and Eric Malcolm Biel, aged 33, was senfenced to three months’ imprisonment for a breach of his probation. They pleaded guilty to assuming the designation of a police officer. Biel, who was out of prison on license, admitted assaulting Smith.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 123, 22 February 1928, Page 15
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116BOGUS DETECTIVES Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 123, 22 February 1928, Page 15
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