Woman Gaoled for Fraud
Mary Bond, a middle-aged widow who pleaded guilty on Tuesday .to defrauding her employer, Mrs. ,A. E. Forsythe, of £56 18s Bd, given her to pay household accounts, and to obtaining goods to the value of £lB 17s 7d, by pretending she was Mrs. Forsythe, appeared for sentence in the Christchurch Police Court yesterday before Mr. Mosley, S.M. The Magistrate said the probation officer's report was very much against her, and probation was out of the question. The Court could not but view ns grave offences a series of crimes over a considerable period. The circumstances were entirely unworthy, and taking advantage of an old woman was one of a series of mean offences. Accused was convicted and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be eonsurrent. —P.A.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16339, 13 May 1927, Page 9
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136Woman Gaoled for Fraud Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16339, 13 May 1927, Page 9
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