Forged Bank Notes
PRISONER COMMITTED TO BORSTAL. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Feb. 15. Clifford George Returners, labourer and printer, aged 19, found guilty with a very strong recommendation to mercy of knowingly being in possession of forged Reserve Bank five pound notes, uttering four notes and attempting to utter one, was sentenced to-day by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) to two years’ detention in a Borstal institute. Sir Michael Myers said the prisoner yy « being shown the utmost leniency. In England this offence was regarded as extremely serious.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 39, 16 February 1937, Page 7
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89Forged Bank Notes Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 39, 16 February 1937, Page 7
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