POSED AS COLONEL
ARMY PRIVATE LONDON, Nov. I.—'George Walter Cooper, ot Elder-street, Brighton, 26-year-old army private who posed as a lieutenant-colonel, was sent to gaol for six months at Hove Police Court lor incurring a debt by false pretences. He rang up a garage in the name of “Lieutenant-Colonel North’’ and hired a car, pretending he was the officer’s batman when he called for it. He drove to Aldershot, where lie ran out of petrol and obtained some more from a barracks by saying he was on important business. (>n the way back to Brighton he picked up three young recruits, .persuaded them to desert and drove them
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 270, 13 December 1939, Page 3
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108POSED AS COLONEL Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 270, 13 December 1939, Page 3
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