THE WRONG MAN NEARLY SENT TO SEA
IDENTITY MIX-UP George Grainger, uged 22, who appeared at the Police Court to-day, listened impassively as he was ordered to be placed on H.M.S. Laburnum as a deserter from H.M.S. Renown. Later on it was found that Grainger should have been charged with failing to comply with a maintenance order. He had answered by mistake, the call for Bernard Plackett. When he returned to the dock, the magistrate, Mr. W. R. McKean, asked him why he had not mentioned he was not the man. “I didn’t know what it was all about,” he answered carelessly.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 207, 21 November 1927, Page 9
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