MAN’S CURIOUS PLEA
‘I’M SECRET SERVICE,” REFUSED TO PAY TRAIN FARE. TAIHAPE, February 14. “I'm a secret service man,” dramatically declared a labourer, Stanley Wilfred Adams, when charged at the Taihape Police Court yesterday with travelling o n the- train between Marton and Taihape without a railway ticket. The accused was in possession of 3s 3RI when arrested at the Taihape railway station. HjO declared that the odd farthing was the “King’s farthing’ ’and a means of secret service identification. He produced to the police- a. pocket book some unintelligible signs on it, wliidji, be stated, were his credentials. In reply to the Bench, accused stated that he had travelled all over the world on this “pass,” and "as annoyed when the railway guard Dad refused to accept it. He stated also that he had been in New Zealand 30 years. “Well,” said one of the justices on the Bench, after perusing the age given in the charge sheet, “von would have been about three then.” Adams was fined £l. in default 14 days’ imprisonment,
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1932, Page 6
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175MAN’S CURIOUS PLEA Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1932, Page 6
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