UNDER FALSE COLOURS
FITTER AROUSES POLICE SUSPICIONS GAVE WRONG NAME Giving a name which he afterward declared to be false, when applying for a passport recently, James Augustus McCauley landed himself in trouble which resulted in his appearance in the Police Court this morning. McCauley, a ship’s fitter, aged 42, was charged with, deserting from the Ruahine at Wellington on August 24, 1927. Sub-Inspector McCarthy described the circumstances of the case as peculiar. Accused had made an application for a passport under the name of James Augustus McCauley, and the police had then discovered a warrant out for the arrest of a man of that name for deserting his ship two years ago. “This man now says that he is not James Augustus McCauley at all, and I should like a week’s remand, so that we can find out who he really is,” continued the sub-inspector. “He says he arrived from Sydney only fourdays ago. A man who makes an% application for a passport under a false name is in a peculiar position." Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., granted the remand, and assured the man that he would be given his liberty if he could obtain any reasonable bail. “Even £lO will do,” he said.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 683, 7 June 1929, Page 1
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