POSED AS CLERGYMAN.
ARREST ON FORGERY CHARGE. PURCHASES FOR HIS WEDDING. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. , A young man attired in clerical clothes and giving the name of the W. F. Donne, M.A., was arrested in on£ of the principal hotels in the city by Detective-Sergeants Hammond and. Ward on a charge of having obtained goods to the value of £3 by means of a valueless cheque drawn on the Bank ot New Zealand at Christchurch. He was subsequently charged at the Police Court as Claude Osmonde Barker and remanded till Wednesday. It is alleged that at one largo drapery establishment accused purchased sheetings and similar furnishings of the value of £l4O and intimated that lie would pay for them by cheque when ha called during the afternoon with hii motor car to take them away. He wad informed that as the banks would 1>« closed for the holidays he would have to furnish a reference as to his bona fides. He replied, it is stated, that he could not furnish one. as he had just arrived in the city on furlough, and was buying furniture in preparation for his wedding* because it were cheaper here than in Christchurch.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1921, Page 4
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200POSED AS CLERGYMAN. Taranaki Daily News, 29 March 1921, Page 4
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