FALSE PRETENCES
POSED AS DETECTIVE LABOURER SENT TO GAOL (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, June 20. Seeing a shopkeeper in the act of selling' cigarettes after hours, Edwin Charles Batt, aged 33, labourer, posed as a detective to obtain money totalling £2 by false pretences. The shopkeeper, Egerton Thomas Branford Webster, gave the explanation that he thought it was a “graft” when asked by Detective-Sergeant H. Nuttall during the hearing of the case in the Magistrates’ Court, Napier, today, why he had given money to Batt. The charges against Batt were that between June 10 and June 16, with intent to defraud, he obtained from Webster sums amounting to £2 by false pretence, in representing that he was “Detective Dunn.” He was further charged with assuming the designation of detective. Batt pleaded not guilty on both charges. On the first he was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment by Mr J. Miller, S.M. The second charge was withdrawn by the police.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1938, Page 7
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159FALSE PRETENCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1938, Page 7
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