CRIME AND WAR SERVICE
JUDGE CRIES A HALT. [Per United Press Association,] CHRISTCHURCH, August 22. Charles Francis Riley, aged twentyeight, who was convicted in the Supreme Court of maldng a false document. thereby committing forgery in connection with a cheque for £B,OOO, was brought up for sentence. Counsel for prisoner made a strong appeal for leniency on the grounds of war service, and the fact that prisoner was still suffering from the effect of wounds and shell shock. Mr Justice Adams, in admitting prisoner to probation for three years, said the recommendation to mercy by the jury must he taken into consideration. Ho also remarked that he thought it was time, four years after the war, that the court ceased to hear about the war services of prisoners charged with serious crimes.
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Evening Star, Issue 18053, 22 August 1922, Page 4
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132CRIME AND WAR SERVICE Evening Star, Issue 18053, 22 August 1922, Page 4
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