BOGUS RAFFLE
ACCUSED pleads guilty. TiMARU, October 5. r Herbert Wallace, a labourer, when charged- to-day with vagrancy, pleaded , guilty. _ ’ Senior-Sergeant stated that the accused represented himself as collecting money for a raffle on behalf of the Public Hospital. He procured a book and filled it in with 25 numbers. He wrote in some of the names hilnself and- obtained the names 'of others. A man who took No. 13 -.became suspicious and rang the hospital! He then communicated with the police. in The Magistrate: The accused should have had a number Vi. .ViWhen arrested the accused had Us Sd said the -senior-sergeant. His hand was bandaged, and on investigation it proved to be quite sound. In -reply' to a question- by the Magistral the accused said that he belonged to Christchurch, but had lived for many years at Auckland. He had been' ‘swagging” for the past three y- The accused was remanded for sen " tence,. . . j _ _
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1932, Page 6
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157BOGUS RAFFLE Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1932, Page 6
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