COURTS AND OFFENCES.
ILLEGAL TAKING OF OPOSSUMS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, June 25. James Smith was fined £4 with costs for halving opossums on© day before the season opened. FORGERY OF A, MORTGAGE, AUCKLAND, June 25. At the Supreme Cbuirt a sentence of three years’ reformative detention, to be concurrent with the term he is now serving, was imposed on an ex-solicitor, John Henry Victor Mansill, by Mr Justice Maegregar on a charge of the forgery of a memorandum of mortgage for £6OO amdi causing it to be acted upon as if genuine. Mansill i,s at present serving a sentence of four years’ reformative detention.
It was stated 1 that this forgery was one of those 'acts incidental to- the misappropriation. for which Mansill had previously been tried and sentenced. Mr Meredith, Crown Solicitor, said that the real reason for the charge was that to assist a civil action for the removal of the transfer from the register. His Honour said that had this charge been brought before Mr Justice Blair when, the other charges were, he thought the sentence would have been heavier.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 June 1928, Page 11
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184COURTS AND OFFENCES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 June 1928, Page 11
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