FRAUD
DESPICABLE ACTION
LONDON, Oct. 28
John Joseph Bouchier, aged 42. was sentenced at Chester to six months’ imprisonment for obtaining money under the pretext that lie was authorised to collect funds to repatriate’ stranded South African children.
The police stated that Bouchier, who was a Poor, was interned at Johannesburg during the Boer War, and was sentenced for stealing 20 horses from a troop train.
Later he‘became an art student and blossomed out in Australia as an art master. He joined the Australian forces when the war broke out, and subsequently enlisted in the South African police, but was discharged when his re ord became known.
After the war Ire served sentences for frauds in England and Scotland.
The chairman of the- bench called hint, a pest to soeietv. and declared that he had been guilty of a most despicable a.tion.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1929, Page 2
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