BOGUS SHIP’S COOK
TWO LOANS BY FRAUD (Special to THE SUN) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. The promise of his custom when he became cook of the steamer Breeze induced a Timaru market gardener named Lidstone to lend Albert Fisher 15s. The same story was told successfully to a fishmonger named Williams, and Fisher became richer by 6s 6d. When the latter, who at one time was a leader of the unemployed in Christchurch, appeared in the Police Court to-day, before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., on tw o charges of fraud, Chief - Detective Carrol said that he had no job on the Breeze. He had served three months now out of a six months’ sentence. The bogus ship’s cook was sentenced to 48 hours’ imprisonment with hard labour oh each charge, the sentence to be added to the term he is now serving.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 454, 8 September 1928, Page 14
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