LANDLORD’S RUSE
“DEAD MAN IN HOUSE”
SCHEME TO SECURE POSSESSION TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO POLICE ■ ’ (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, May 20. John Gearschawski was charged in the Magistrate’s Court with causing a wrongful message to be sent over the telephone. The police said that the accused was the owner of a .house at Marshland. He had let it, but wanted possession, and used a subterfuge to that end, thinking that if he got the police out they would gain admittance and he would be able to put the tenants and the furniture out. Therefore he went to a neighbour and asked her to ring the police, stating that there was a dead man in the house.
“To put some colour—or, anyway, smell—to his story,” added the sub-inspector, “he put some stale meat in the house. There was no one there when two constables arrived. The accused then said if the tenant was not dead there, he was dead somewhere else.” The defendant was fined £25, in default three months’ imprisonment.
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Southland Times, Issue 21088, 21 May 1930, Page 6
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170LANDLORD’S RUSE Southland Times, Issue 21088, 21 May 1930, Page 6
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