FORGERY AND THEFT
TEN PRISONERS SENTENCED SIGNING OF ACQUITTANCE BOLLS tpA.) DUNEDIN, June 11. Sentences on 10 prisoners who had been Afound guilty of forgery and theft conSaected with the signing of Army acquittance rolls, were passed to-night by Mr Justice Kennedy. . . The following were sentenced to 15 months’ reformative detention for forgery ■“and six months’ reformative detention on charges of theft:—Jack Bayne Townsend and James Richard Edmond. The following were sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour on charges of forgery and six months Imprisonment on charges of theft, the sentences to be concurrent:—James Rivers, Claude Alexander Buchanan, Percy Lawrence Dawson, Alexander Reid Young, John Gavin Maclntyre, Allan Gibb, Milton James Hall, and Clement Hall Beck. .' , . His Honour said that the system seemed to have been one with which no fault could reasonably be found provided certain civilian officers, upon whom the military officers had to rely, had shown merely ordinary honesty. The cases have been under trial since May 12.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23972, 12 June 1943, Page 6
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