EXCUSE FOR FORGERY.
A WEEK'S WAGES OWING. THAMES PRISONER'S UNAVAILING, PLEA. A young man named Robert Leonard Pickworth, who had been committed from Thames on a charge of forgery, appeared for sentence at the Supreme Court to-day. Asked by Mr. Justice Reed why ho had committed the offence, accused said it was because his employer owed him. a week's wages. His Honor: So you forged his nam© on a cheque?— Yes, sir. His Honor said Pickworth had already served a term of reformative detention for an offence of similar character, and that did not appear to have done him any good. He would be committed to reformative detention for three vears.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 30, 6 February 1928, Page 5
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111EXCUSE FOR FORGERY. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 30, 6 February 1928, Page 5
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