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FINED £3
Impersonated Police
A fine of £3, in default six days'
hard labour, was imposed at the
Goulburn Police Court to-day on
Seaton Lytton Mulholland, 40,
when he was convicted of having
assumed the designation of a
constable.
Mulholland pleaded not guilty to the
charge.
Constable Munro told the Bench
that at about 5.40 . p.m. yester
day, as a result of something he was
told, he saw defendant in conversa
tion with several men in the saloon
bar of a hotel. He heard defendant
say: "I am a C.I.B. man." A man
with him asked what that meant, and
defendant; replied: "I'm in the police."
Witness told defendant he was a
constable, and said he had been told
defendant had been telling people he
belonged to the police. Defendant
said he was not a policeman, and had
not told anyone he was. Witness, re
plied that following a complaint he
had heard Mulholland say he was a
C. I.B. man. On the way to the police
station, Mulholland said it was only
a joke.
Giving evidence, Mulholland, who
said he was a traveller, stated that
on going with another man into the
saloon bar of a hotel he remarked that
probably those people there might
think he was possibly a man who be
longed to the police force. He did
not want to cause any trouble or scare
the people, being a stranger among
them. His friend said it would be
quite all right.
The Chamber Magistrate, Mr. T. A.
Doolan, who sat on the Bench with
Mr. A. Macintosh, J.P., imposed a
fine of £3, or six days' hard labour.
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