SOLICITOR’S CRIME

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 221, 19 June 1928, Page 11

SOLICITOR’S CRIME

PLEADS’GUILTY TO FORGING A SIGNATURE Dominion Special Service. Auckland. June 18. John Henry Victor Mansill, aged 30, formerly a solicitor, of Auckland, who is undergoing a term of reformative detention, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court this mornir- to a charge of forging on September 16, 1027, a memorandum of mortgage for £6OO. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. In his statement Mansill stated : “The signature "iirporting to bo that of Mary Forman was not inscribed by her. I nwself forged the signature and subsequently called to my room one of my clerks, in whose presence I inscribed my own name only. I then instructed him to witness both my signature and the signature purporting to be that of Mary Foreman. He was not present and lie knew nothing whatever of the forging of Mary Foreman’s name l>y inc. The net proceeds of the sub-mortgage. £590, were used to make up deficiencies in my jrust account, and the principal sum of £6OO is shown in my list of defalcations.”