SIGNED WIFE'S NAME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 3

SIGNED WIFE'S NAME.

RELIEF WORKER'S FORGERY,

ANOTHER BREAKS INTO SHOP.

Two young men who had got into trouble while on unemployment relief work . were sentenced by Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Couvt to-day. They were Simon Fleming, who admitted forgery and the obtaining of money from the Public Works Department, and George Clarence Child, who pleaded guilty to olTences of breaking and entering and theft. To Fleming, who wa6 committed from Dartraville, his Honor said: "You don't <;eem to have taken advantage of the relief that the Government gives to men of your type at the present time. During vour term on relief work you committed the crime of forgery, by forging a receipt signed in your wife's name, and you got a sum of money." The accused was admitted to probation for two years and ordered to pay 37/ costs. , , His Honor said that the other accused, Child did not deserve much consideration. ' He had been convicted of breaking and entering when only 20 years of a 4 He was sentenced to one years reformative detention for that offence. Now he was in trouble again for breaking into a shop. Child was ordered to be detained for two years in the Waikeria Borstal Institute.