MECHANIC SENTENCED
Remarking that although the prisoner had previous convictions involving theft, forgery, false pretences and unlawful conversion. Mr. Justice Callan in the Supreme Court to-day sentenced William John Brooks, aged 47, mechanic, to nine months' imprisonment, to he cumulative with a sentence of three months Brooks was now serving. The prisoner, a one-legged man, was up for sentence on one charge of forgery and two charges of false pretences.
His Honor said it was in prisoner's favour that his last conviction for anything serious was in 1932. The sentence he was now serving was on a charge of being a rogue and vagabond.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1943, Page 6
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