IMPOSTER ON CRUTCHES.
'■■'' ■«» ' PSEUDO RETURNED SOLDIER BEFORE THE COURT. Dunedin, June 10. At the Police Court to-day a young man named Albert Williams was charged with being a rogue and a vagabond who imposed on charitable institutions. Accused pleaded guilty. The evidence for the police showed that accused obtained £l7 in money, clothing, board, etc., from the Soldiers' Dependents' Welfare Committee as a result of a statement that he had been wounded in the knee and cheek in the Somme battle. He received massage treatment at the hospital and went round town on crutches. The police discovered that accused haa been in camp under the name of Dent from January till April, 1916, but that there was no record of his having left the Dominion.
Mr. Cumming, probation officer, said that there were a few men who were making a business of falsely representing themselves as returned soldiers, and an example should be made of accused. Accused was remanded for a week pending further inquiry and the probation officer's report.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1919, Page 5
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170IMPOSTER ON CRUTCHES. Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1919, Page 5
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