POSED AS POLICEMAN
RELEASED VICTIMS FOR CASH. THE TABLES TURNED. 2y Telefraph.—Press AssociaUon. Christchurch, Last Night At the Magistrate's Court, Joseph McAuliffe was charged before Mr. Day, P.M., witli the theft of a cheque valued at £8 and a brief bag valued at £l, the property of Albert Pratt, and with the theft of an overcoat and suit case and contents valued at £lO, the property of Charles William McDonald. He pleaded guilty to both charges. The facts of the case were- that accused, posing as a policeman, effected an arrest, subsequently offering to square the matter with his superiors for any spare cash which his prisoner happened to have about him. The ruse was temporarily successful, but "the prisoner." becoming suspicious, turned the tables by laying an information against his captor. The- cheque was cashed at an hotel, from which place the second theft was committed. The accused was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to run concurrentlv.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1920, Page 5
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163POSED AS POLICEMAN Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1920, Page 5
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