SERIES OF FORGERIES.
FARM LABOURER GAOLED.
DECLARED HABITUAL CRIMINAL.
Twelve offences of forgery and the uttering of forged cheques were admitted by a farm labourer, Henry Royden Moore, alias E. J. McCarthy, who appeared in the dock at the Supreme Court this morning for sentence. A suggestion that the crimes were due to mental deficiency was made by prisoner's counsel, Mr. Noble, who said he went to the war when he was about 16, and appeared to have wrong ideas of citizenship. Some of his crimes were senseless, because cheques were given to certain people and the accused did not even trouble to take delivery of goods he had ordered. He received no profit in some cases. Mr. Hubble, for the Crown, said the accused had been sentenced this month to one year's imprisonment on a series of previous crimes. Mr. Justice Herdman said that the prisoner appeared to be incorrigible. His Honor sent Moore to gaol for three years' hard labour, and declared him an habitual criminal.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 9
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