TWO YEARS’ GAOL FOR YOUNG DRUG ADDICT
TWELVE VALUELESS! CHEQUES “A PRISONER OF WAR” (From Our Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. JLJARROWING experiences in a German prison camp was stated at the Police Court to-day as the reason why Douglas Charles Hopewell, a young Canadian surveyor, became a drug addict. He came to New Zealand to try to shake off the habit. Hopewell, it was said, was short of money and repaired his finances by issuing valueless cheques. He appeared before Mr. Mosley, S.M., this morning on 12 charges of having obtained a total of £56 Is. Mr. G. G. Lockwood appeared for the Canadian, and pleaded guilty to all charges. “He became a drug addict as a result of his experiences as a prisoner of war in Germany,,” counsel explained. “He came to New Zealand to avoid the drug habit but after a time he became short of money, and fell back on this means of obtaining it.” On the first charge Hopewell was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention, and on the others he was convicted find ordered to come up for sentence if called upon. The magistrate remarked that if the Prisons Board did not ship Hopewell out of the country and he committed any further offences after his release, he would be arrested and sentenced on the remaining charges.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 80, 25 June 1927, Page 12
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