FORGED BANK NOTES
OFFENDERS SENTENCED , TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT ; IMPOSED. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 11. Maurice Goodman, aged 33, Percy Short, aged 52, and Percy John M'Kenzi'e Short, aged 20, found guilty on a retrial, bn four charges of uttering forged bank notes on April 24, were sentenced to-day by Mr Justice Smith. Mr Meredith, Crown Prosecutor, described the offences as a determined raid on the public of considerable- magnitude. At the same time as a trail of forged notes was laid from Auckland to Hamilton, many similar notes were issued in Wellington. The judge said he had no doubt, despite prisoners’ protestations of innocence, that they uttered the notes. The man who caused the manufacture of the notes had not been caught. Goodman and Short, sen., were sentenced to one gear’s , imprisonment with hard labour, followed by two years’ reformative detention, and Short, jun., to two years’ Borstal detention.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21411, 12 August 1931, Page 6
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151FORGED BANK NOTES Otago Daily Times, Issue 21411, 12 August 1931, Page 6
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