TRUSTING TRADESMEN
JUDGE HAS NO SYMPATHY,
FOR, THEM,
(»X TSLEQKAPH.— IT.ESS ASSOCIATION.)
■ DUNEDIN, This Day. In tho Supremo Court the following prisoners were sentenced : Clive Argyle Woocl, forgery (three . charges), one 1 year's 'imprisonment on each, to bo cumulative. Prisoner had been already sentenced for a similar offence in (he North, and was described as an,expert in handwriting. Mr. Justice Sim said it was another illustration ot the way such offences were being committed by reason of. tradespeople cashing big cheques for absolute strangers'.. He could not sympathise' with them. John M.ilne, breaking, entering, and theft, three years at Ilia Borstal Institution; Colin Frederick McDonald, Robert M'Donald M'Beath, Frank Abbott M'Donald, and William Russell- Lamb, breaking, entering, and theft, three years' probation.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 142, 19 June 1925, Page 6
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