“AN EXPENSIVE JOKE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 77, 22 June 1927, Page 13

“AN EXPENSIVE JOKE”

BOGUS DETECTIVE ESCAPADE COSTS £lO Evidently Mr. \V. R. McKean, S.M., and Alexander Mulholland differ as the poles as to what constitutes a jcke. ..The reason for this was shown in tne Police Court yesterday when Mulholland stood in the dock to exPiam why he posed as a detective. evidence showed that Titus ■ytcKenna, in company with a friend. Jounioy e cl from Epsom to the city by in which “Detective” Mulholland as also a passenger. Later in a hotel bar the two friends «ere accosted by Mulholland, who dress I<ied lcKenna ’s name and udrare coolness the “detective” t , rr P we< l McKenna’s pencil and, obming the desired particulars, said he a detective. <sr*o« Bt then a stranger came on the v _, n ® and McKenna asked him: “Do tice o’’ 0 ’’ ° W man ? Is He a deteca. 1 don *t, and I don’t think he is a detective.” Then the police took charge. h«nJ ar ? med b y Mr. J. J. Sullivan, Mula Ira* he regarded the whole as ; “I Then turning to the Bench, j .• no id ea it was an offence, ! 1 wouldn’t have done it; it •Tt JUSt a ma tter of a joke.” makA ?? ay have been a joke, but I’ll ijpv lan expensive one” retorted Mr. fined £io *» You wUI be convicted and