FALSE STATEMENTS
POSTING OF LETTERS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day. "If cases like this become common, probation cannot be granted," said Mr. Justice Smith, when a woman and a man appeared for sentence for fraudulently declaring that they had posted letters. The woman, Ivy Elizabeth Matheson, had borrowed from a money-lender, and ' when he threatened to put the bailiff in sho said she had.posted him the money. ' Percy Morrisli, a young man of unblemished character, made the false statement that'ho had posted the money to a bookmaker. The Judge granted a year's probation, and ordered the payment of the costs of the prosecution.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 17, 20 July 1931, Page 11
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104FALSE STATEMENTS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 17, 20 July 1931, Page 11
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