Wrong Bias

NZ Truth, Issue 1150, 15 December 1927, Page 7

Wrong Bias

THERE 's nothing like "going big" when it comes to bluff. The only time caution is really advisable and necessary in the bluffing same is when the police are interested. . , They were when Harold Hardgrave, alias (on the charge sheet) Harold King, a Christchurch win,-dow-oleaner,' was interviewed about a set of bowls which were stolen from the custody of their owner, Norton Francis. "He told a plausible story," said Chief Detective W. E. Lewis, when describing the theft to Magistrate Mosley. "He called himself Major Hardgrave, D.5.0., and all that kind of thing." "A discharged Imperial soldier who lost his senses entirely when he had had a .drink or two/' was the description given of Hardgrave by Lawyer Bill Tracy in putting in a word for the man after pleading guilty to the theft of the bowls. \ It was a clean bowl out for Hardgrave, the bench fining him £3, in default one month's imprisonment.