A MEAN ACTION
IMPOSING ON CHARITABLE
PEOPLE
(Per Press Association — Copyright.)
WELLINGTON, June 23,
“This is a particularly mean action you have perpetrated,” Mr McNeil, S.M., told Norman Eric Enos Hicks, a horse driver, aged 31 years, when Sentencing him in the Magistrate ® Court to-day to six months’ imprisonment. Hicks pleaded guilty to being a rogue and a vagabond, in that he imposed on a private individual by false representations.
Detective Sergeant Revell said that while the accused was engaged on relief work last May, a mate of his named Leckie died. The accused conceived th e idea of collecting for a wreath, and he did collect a few •shillings. He followed this up by going around the city ■ collecting for Leckie’a wife and children, who did not exist. It was not known how much the accused got in this way, but, on his own admission, he collected £5 15s.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1932, Page 6
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150A MEAN ACTION Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1932, Page 6
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