PRISONERS SENTENCED
FORGERY AND UTTERING
■ Terms of reformative detention were imposed-on"two young men guilty of offences connected with forged documents' irt1' the Supreme "Court today by Mr; Justice ' Lionel John Lynch, < aged--22,1-who is at present serving, a sentence' of two and a half years' .refoi'mative, detention, for a similar 'offence;'was sentenced to another two and< a half years' detention for forgery: and uttering, to be served concurrently. Thomas Henry Hale, a labourer, aged 24, was sentenced to twelve months' reformative detention on two charges of uttering a forged motor driver's licence.
Lynch, for whom Mr. A. Eaton Hurley appeared, had a long list of previous convictions. ' His Honour said that from 1934 onwards he had had charges of theft and false pretences, the only variation from those classes of crime being when he stowed away on a boat returning to New Zealand from Australia. ■■■~■"
Mr. C. H. Amctt. appearing for Hale, said the prisoner had started life on the wrong foot and had been out of step ever since.- He had been sent to a reformatory school when he was twelve. .... •■■-..■..-■■■...'
"Really you are .now due for a substantial sentence," said his Honour, "because it is only, a sentence of some severity that will puli you up at all." The crime, he added, was obviously premeditated.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 99, 23 October 1936, Page 11
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