VALUELESS CHEQUES
CANADIAN SENTENCED HIS FATHER A JUDGE Press Association. DUNEDIN, To-day. Douglas Charles Hopewell, described as a Canadian, was charged in the Police Court on several charges of obtaining money by means of valueless cheques. It was stated that accused was an officer in the Canadian Flying Corps, having been shot down into' the German lines. Since then he had been a drug-addict ,and his parents (his father being a judge of the Supreme Court) sent him to New Zealand. He had visited many towns in the Dominion, cashing valueless cheques. He was recently ordered to have reformative detention at Invercargill. The magistrate ordered that the accused be detained for two years, and suggested that the Prisons Board should have him returned to Canada.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 67, 10 June 1927, Page 11
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125VALUELESS CHEQUES Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 67, 10 June 1927, Page 11
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