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YOUNG MAN'S FOOLISHNESS. JUDGE INFLICTS A FINE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] DUNEDIN. Friday. Holding that accused had been already severely punished by losing his position and that ho had lapsed into crime in a foolish way, His Honor Mr Justice Sim inflicted a fine of £3 on Louis Cyril Hislop Gooch. who appeared at (he Supreme Court, this morning for sentence on a charge of forging a receipt by altering the amount on it from 6d to £7 2s sd, knowing it to be false. "This was a. particularly stupid crime," said Mr. Hanlon, counsel for accused. Gooch had shown foolishness, for had he gone to his father he could have got the money which he had lost, or, if he had confessed, probably nothing more would have been done than his having to make good the sum.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19738, 10 September 1927, Page 12
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