A BANKRUPT PUNISHED.
■ • : SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TEL-GRAM.) AUCKLAND, December 1. Mr Justice Cooper, sitting at the Supreme Court to-day, sentenced Vincent Philip John Aylward, who was charged with crimes under the Bankruptcy Act, to six months' imprisonment. At the hearing of the case it was shown that prisoner while an undischarged bankrupt, had assumed another name for the purpose of securing credit, and had secured credit thereby, without giving any iutimation that he was an undischarged bankrupt. The case was adjourned to secure -police reports upon the prisoner's character. His Honour said that the report of the probation officer was unfavourable. If the prisoner had simply failed to disclose that he was an undischarged bankrupt the case might have been dealt with under the First Offenders' Act, or mi»ht have been met by.a fine, but he had deliberately and intentionally secured credit by a false written statement, purporting to come from another person.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13905, 2 December 1910, Page 8
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155A BANKRUPT PUNISHED. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13905, 2 December 1910, Page 8
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