CHARGES OF FORGERY
MAN AND WOMAN SENTENCED [By Telegraph—Press Association] DUNEDIN, This Day. On three charges of forgery at Invercargill Jack Sutton, aged 22 years, and Daphne Beresford Bt owning, aged 22 years, appeared for sentence in the Supreme Court before Mr Justice Kennedy, the former being sentenced to nine months’ reformative detention and the latter admitted to a year’s probation and to remain in a Salvation Army home for three months. Addressing the male prisoner his Honour 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 hospitality of the girl’s parents and abused it by stealing three cheque forms and living with the daughter as man and wife at a hotel, inducing her to forge her mother’s name to cheques by which he swindled people.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 28 April 1937, Page 6
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