IMPERSONATING POLICE
CUSTOMS OFFICER CHARGED. Bv Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. To-day, at the City Police Court, Edward McLelland was charged that he assumed the designation of a police officer. Accused had sought admission from the gatekeeper at the Forbury racecourse and informed him that he was a detective from Wellington on holiday and was investigating a case of theft from the Grand Hotel. Accused, in evidence, said he was an examining officer in the Customs Department and a detective, and denied that he suggested that he was a police officer. The Magistrate said that accused’s remark to the gatekeeper led to the assumption that he was a police officer. Counsel .said that accused had been gassed in France and was in a bad state of health. The Magistrate: “It seems to me like a mental case.” He ordered accused to come up for sentence any time within twelve months and ordered him to pay the costs.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1926, Page 15
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