SPENT AT THE RACES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1926, Page 9

SPENT AT THE RACES.

MONEY FROM FORGED CHEQUES. YOUXG MAX ALLOWED PROBATIOX. "Xo. he does not drink, your Honor, but I am Informed that he used to go to the telephone and put on every penny he had with the bookmakers." That was the reply of the probation officer .Mr. W. J. Campbell i when questioned concerning the habits of -Tames McFberson. who appeared for sentence at the Supreme Court this morning, on two charges of forging and uttering. Mr. Justice Stringer said prisoner had forged two cheques, cashing one at a store, after taking two cheque forms from his employer's book. He passed the cheques for £5 10,' and £7. Prisoner's character was unblemished up till the time of this lapse, said Mr. J. J. Sullivan. Till three months aeo. -when he went farming, prisoner had worked in drapers' shops. He had terminated hi* engagement with the man from whom he stole the cheque forms, and left his employ on December 30. His salary was 25 a week, and he had drawn all that wks coming to him. "What did he do with the money from the cheques "He went straight to the races, and spent it there, your Honor."' McPherson was allowed probation fer three years. He was forbidden tc bet. or to go on a racecourse, and was ordered to pay £1 12/6 costs of prosecution within three months, and to maKe full restitution at the discretion of the probation officer.