"Home, Charles!"

NZ Truth, Issue 1191, 27 September 1928, Page 7

"Home, Charles!"

WH I LE housewives rightly resent the persistent attentions of itinerant hawkers, they -are inclined to look more sympathetically ori genuine collectors for charity. This, no doubt, prompted Charles Hamilton Rbmer, an Englishman, aged 34, to play on the generosity of the people of Christchurch, by despicably representing that he was an official collector for the Christchurch Returned. Soldiers' Association unemployment fund. For about two weeks he did quite a successful business, making from 14s. to. as much as £2 a day, but he stumbled rather badly when ,h» called on the house of Detective James Bennot Findlay. . Romer is a pastrycook by trade, and m June last, he was allowed out of gaol on probationary license from a three' years' sentence which does ijiot expire until next January. The- bogus collector had. nothing to say for himself except that he had beenout of work. .■ ■ "rfome, Charles for another twelve months," was the pro* noiinoement of Magistrate Mosley, when the facts of Romer's despio* able fraud on the name of returned men was;' unfolded. \;~ : ;