FORGERY CHARGES.
YOUNG COUPLE'S OFFENCES.
LENIENCY ABUSED. (By Telegraph.—Cress Association.) DUNKDIN, Wednesday. On three charges of forgery at Invercargill, Jack Sutton (22), and Daphne Beresford Browning (22) appeared for sentence in tlie Supreme Court to-day before Mr. Justice Kennedy. Sutton was sentenced to nine months' reformative detention, and Browning was admitted io two years' probation and was ordered to remain in the Salvation Army Home for three months.
Addressing the male prisoner the judge said he had shown contempt for leniency by again and again embarking on fresh crimes. The Crown Prosecutor, in describing tlie offences, stated that the woman prisoner had received merciful treatment from the Court within the past year. Sutton's offences were rather mean. He appeared to have accepted the hospitality of the girl's parents and to have abused it by stealing three cheque forms and by living with the girl at an hotel as man and wife, inducing the girl to forge her mother's name to cheques by which he swindled people.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 26
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