COUPLE SENTENCED
MAN’S MEAN CONDUCT
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
DUNEDIN, April 28.
On three charges of forgery at Invercargill, Jack Sutton, 22, and Daphne Beresford Browning, 22 appeared for sentence at the Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Kennedy, the former being sentenced to nine months’ reformative detention and the latter admitted to two years’ probation, and to remain, in a Salvation Army Home for three months. Addressing the male prisoner, the Judge said he had shown a contempt for leniency by again and again embarking on fresh crimes. The Crown Prosecutor, in describing the offences, stated that the woman prisoner had received merciful treatment from the Court within the past year. Sutton’s offences were rather mean. He appeared to have accepted the hospitality of the girl’s parents, abusing it by stealing three cheque forms, and living with the daughter as man and wife at an hotel, inducing her to forge her mother’s name to cheques by which he swindled people,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1937, Page 2
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