DECEIVING HUSBAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 269, 13 November 1928, Page 20

DECEIVING HUSBAND.

WOMAN FORGES BANK-BOOK.

PUBLICITY <PART OF PENALTY'

JUDGE REFUSES SUPPRESSION.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

DUNBDIN. this day.

That orders for the suppression of names were made only in very exceptional circumstances and that he certainly could not see any exceptional

circumstances in the case before him were the remarks of Mr. Justice MacGregor when counsel made an application for the suppression of the name of Catherine Halpin, who had admitted forging an entry in a Post Office Savings Bank book.

Counsel said accused was 38 years of age and was a respectable married woman with one child seven years of age. This was the first time she had been before a Court, and what she had done was more foolhardy than indicative of criminal intent. It wae obvious that the bank book had been forged. The book belonged to her husband, who gave her £15 to bank. Instead of putting the money in the bank she sent it to a relative in Australia who was desperately in need of money. She had expected to Aceive that amount back long before it was time to present the book for interest. The only person she had intended to deceive was her husband.

His Honor said accused intended to get credit for £15. It was forgery. Counsel: She did it to show her husband the book. His Honor said that if the fraud had not been discovered accused would have got £15 out of the Post Office. Counsel: It is inconceivable that it would not have been discovered. His Honor: That is not the question. Counsel said it would mean disgrace not only to herself, but also to her husband and child. > "That is almost inevitably the effect of crime," said his Honor, "and part of the penalty to be paid for crime." Accused was ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution, £1 1/, and to come up for sentence if called upon.