A GRAVE OFFENCE
SIGNATURE ON TELEGRAM
(By Telegraph-j-Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day.
Donald Stewart Mackenzie, aged 30, a schoolteacher, who was recently discharged from ' Roto ■ Roa Island Inebriates Home, where .he was a voluntary patient, was sentenced by Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., to fourteen days' imprisonment, for wrongfully signing another person's name to a telegram without authority. He pleaded guilty.
The police said that Mackenzie returned from the island on October 18 with £20. He went to a hotel and consumed a large quantity of whisky and then dispatched a telegram to his father requesting £5. He attached the signature of Mr. P. E. Norman, who was superintendent of inebriates on the island. '
Mr. Wilson remarked.that the offence was a grave one, the maximum penalty being 12 months' imprisonment or a fine of £100.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 10
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