"MENTALLY DEFECTIVE"

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 125, 31 May 1927, Page 10

"MENTALLY DEFECTIVE"

FORGERIES ON HONEYMOON

(By Teleiraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

CHBISTCHTJBCH, This Day. "This man is mentally deficient. He has recently married and tho wherewithal for the honeymoon came from forging one of these eleven cheques, representing £146," said Mr. Upham in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when a young man, whose name was suppressed in tho meantime, was charged on eleven counts with having forged cheques. Dotective-Scrgeant Young said that the conduct of the accused when interviewed would give one tho impression that he was not normal by any means.

Mr. XJpham, for tho accused, said that the accused as a boy had attended two schools for mental defectives. Up till the present he had shown no criminal tendencies. The accused had expected money which had not come. Ho was of a very respectable family and so was his wife.

Tho parents had tried to prevent the match, but the couplo were married, and their honeymoon came 'from tho proceeds of the cheques. Full restitution would be made by the relatives, who would take iare that such a thing did not occur again.

The Magistrate said that Mr. TJpham, with his long experience, would realisa that no matter how much anyone 'was watched he would still continue offences if he wished. There was only one way of stopping them and that was by putting him where he would do no harm. The accused pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence. Bail was allowed. '